BOURCARD (Gustave). Drawings, gouaches, prints and paintings of the eighteenth century. Guide of the amateur. Paris : Damascene Morgand, 1893. - Large in-8, midnight blue half-maroquin with bradel corners, smooth spine decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved (Carayon). First edition of this work, a kind of guide for collectors of prints, drawings and paintings of the 18th century. It was printed at 605 copies, this one being ONE OF THE 5 ON HOLLAND PAPER RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR, without number, justified and signed by the latter. It was offered by Bourcard to the great collector of prints Louis Valentin, and is enriched with this autograph sending: "to Mr. Louis Valentin, to the amateur, to the lover of the print, I offer this humble volume as a token of my deep gratitude. G. Bourcard " Very nice copy bound by Carayon. Discharge of an old bookmark pages 24-25, some scattered foxing, not serious.