RICHEPIN (Jean). Les Débuts de César Borgia. Paris: pour la Société des Bibliophiles Contemporains, 1890. - In-8, red morocco, boards framed with a listel of straight and curved lemon morocco forming compartments, interlaced at the bottom, broken by two circles of lemon morocco at the sides and forming a large lobed compartment at the top with green and brown morocco motifs at the corners, edged with one or two gilded fillets inside and out, and set with gilded flowers, ribbed spine decorated in the same spirit, multiple gilded fillets framing the inside, red moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Marius Magnin). Edition published for the Société des bibliophiles contemporains under the direction of Octave Uzanne, limited to 186 copies and illustrated with 13 etchings by Georges ROCHEGROSSE by Paul Avril, F. Courboin, Fornet and Menesse, colored and enhanced with gold. It includes a facsimile of Richepin's letter of October 13, 1890 to the members of the Académie des Beaux Livres. One of 160 copies for the founding members, honorary members, president and legal deposit, this one, number 126, having been specially printed for the printer and publisher Albert Quantin (1850-1933) and enhanced with a black suite of illustrations. A very fine copy in a mosaic binding by Marius Magnin.