ZOLA (Émile). Nouveaux contes à Ninon. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1886. - 2 volumes in one in-8 volume, 225 x 145: frontispiece, (2 ff.), IV, 184 pp, (1 f.), printed cover; (2 ff.), 195 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Havana morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, gilt lace framing the inside, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, covers preserved (Joly). Fine edition at 500 copies, illustrated with a frontispiece and 30 head vignettes, drawn and etched by Edmond RUDAUX (1840-1908). One of 150 first copies on japon impérial, this being one of 75 with a single state of the engravings (no. 91). A very fine copy bound by Joly, very well preserved. Provenance: Armand Brun, with bookplate.