DUMAS FILS (Alexandre).
La Dame aux camélias. Preface by Jules Janin and new unpublished preface by the author.
Paris: Maison Quantin, [1886]. -In-4, 319 x 229: frontispiece, (3 ff. first blank), IV, XIV pp., (1 f.), 247 pp. 10 plates, illustrated cover. Dark brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated throughout with two camellias and their stems in red, green and havana morocco, gilt head, untrimmed, cover retained (Flammarion Vaillant).

Deluxe edition printed in small numbers, illustrated with 42 compositions based on drawings by the painter and illustrator Albert LYNCH (1851-1912), including a colored etched frontispiece by Gaujean, reproduced on the cover, a title vignette engraved by the same artist, 10 black hors-textes etched by Massé, as well as 28 chapter headings and 2 vignettes in the text, engraved in heliogravure by Dumont and printed in intaglio with various tones.

Copy on wove paper, very well bound.
Spine slightly faded. Some scattered foxing.
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Lot no. 630

DUMAS FILS (Alexandre). La Dame aux camélias. Preface by Jules Janin and new unpublished preface by the author. Paris: Maison Quantin, [1886]. -In-4, 319 x 229: frontispiece, (3 ff. first blank), IV, XIV pp., (1 f.), 247 pp. 10 plates, illustrated cover. Dark brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated throughout with two camellias and their stems in red, green and havana morocco, gilt head, untrimmed, cover retained (Flammarion Vaillant). Deluxe edition printed in small numbers, illustrated with 42 compositions based on drawings by the painter and illustrator Albert LYNCH (1851-1912), including a colored etched frontispiece by Gaujean, reproduced on the cover, a title vignette engraved by the same artist, 10 black hors-textes etched by Massé, as well as 28 chapter headings and 2 vignettes in the text, engraved in heliogravure by Dumont and printed in intaglio with various tones. Copy on wove paper, very well bound. Spine slightly faded. Some scattered foxing.

Estimate
€200 - €300
Result
€404
Buyer's premium
25%
DUMAS FILS (Alexandre). La Dame aux camélias. Preface by Jules Janin and new unpublished preface by the author. Paris: Maison Quantin, [1886]. -In-4, 319 x 229: frontispiece, (3 ff. first blank), IV, XIV pp., (1 f.), 247 pp. 10 plates, illustrated cover. Dark brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated throughout with two camellias and their stems in red, green and havana morocco, gilt head, untrimmed, cover retained (Flammarion Vaillant). Deluxe edition printed in small numbers, illustrated with 42 compositions based on drawings by the painter and illustrator Albert LYNCH (1851-1912), including a colored etched frontispiece by Gaujean, reproduced on the cover, a title vignette engraved by the same artist, 10 black hors-textes etched by Massé, as well as 28 chapter headings and 2 vignettes in the text, engraved in heliogravure by Dumont and printed in intaglio with various tones. Copy on wove paper, very well bound. Spine slightly faded. Some scattered foxing.
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