*MAUPASSANT (Guy de). Miss Harriet. Paris : Victor-Havard, 1884. - In-18, 190 x 134 : portrait, (2 ff.), 348 pp., (2 ff.), 1 facsimile, printed cover. Blue morocco, brown morocco listel surrounded by a gilt and mosaic floral garland, and double gilt fillet framing the boards, spine ribbed and decorated in the same spirit, gilt lace inside, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine kept (Champs). First edition. One of 50 copies on Hollande paper, this one enriched with a portrait and a facsimile of the author's autograph which had been published separately under a special cover also added at the end of the volume. UNIQUE EDITION, ENRICHED WITH MORE THAN 130 ORIGINAL AQUARELLES BY THE PAINTER AND ILLUSTRATE EDMOND-EUGÈNE VALTON (1836-1910), distributed on the cover, on the title and in the margins. The artist, first a student of Felix Fossey, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the classes of Nanteuil, Delaroche, Blondel and Thomas Couture. Painter of genre scenes and landscapes, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and the Salon des Indépendants. He was a teacher in the schools of the city of Paris and published 4 books: Le Dessin théorique et pratique (1886), Méthode pour dessiner, Conseils pratiques (1886), Le Dessin pratique pour tous (Paris 1888) and Les Monstres dans l'art : êtres humains et animaux, bas-reliefs, rinceaux, fleurons, etc. (1905). A very nice copy in Champs binding, perfectly preserved despite the slightly faded spine.