GOBINEAU, Arthur de. Scaramouche. Nouvelle édition ornée de - Lot 438

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GOBINEAU, Arthur de. Scaramouche. Nouvelle édition ornée de - Lot 438
GOBINEAU, Arthur de. Scaramouche. Nouvelle édition ornée de compositions de Maxime Dethomas gravées sur bois par Léon Pichon. Paris, chez l'Imprimeur Léon Pichon, 1922. Large in-8, green half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed, underlined by gilt stippling and framed in cold, fleurons and triple gilt framing to the entrenerfs, gilt lettering and date at foot, gilt head. Binding signed Georges Canape. 120 pages and 3 ff. (title, prospectus and one repeated engraving), two-tone compositions by Maxime Dethomas wood-engraved by Léon Pichon in the text and at the head of the chapters, some lamp-ends. Title printed in black and red. Spine and part of boards and corners sunned, corners slightly dulled, tiny scuff in corner of first board. Bound in-fine: the publisher's prospectus, preceded by the title and an illustrated page from the book. New edition with compositions and culs-de-lampe by Maxime Dethomas, wood-engraved by Léon Pichon. Limited edition of 536 numbered copies, this being one of 450 copies on vellum from the papeteries d'Arches (N°105). Arthur de Gobineau narrates the burlesque adventures of a Commedia dell'Arte troupe in 18th-century Italy, revealing a lesser-known facet of his controversial work. A fine copy in a signed binding.
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