LABOUREUR (Jean-Émile) - GOURMONT (Remy de). - Lot 232

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LABOUREUR (Jean-Émile) - GOURMONT (Remy de). - Lot 232
LABOUREUR (Jean-Émile) - GOURMONT (Remy de). The Dream of a woman. Familiar novel. Paris : Camille Bloch, 1925. - In-8, 246 x 172 : 216 pp, (5 ff. last blank), printed cover. Bound in half dark violet morocco, half dark lilac morocco, separated vertically by a zigzag cold fillet topped at each point on the lilac morocco by a grey and pale red morocco arrow motif, smooth spine, silver head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (period binding) Sylvain Laboureur, Catalogue complet de l'œuvre de Jean-Émile Laboureur, II, pp. 66-72, n° 307. 28 original etchings by Jean-Émile LABOUREUR (1877-1943), including one on the frontispiece, one on the title, 25 in the text and one full-page etching at the end of the work . One of the best illustrations of the artist. Edition of 460 copies on Arches vellum paper; one of 385 numbered in Arabic numerals. One finds as usual at the end a second proof of the title. A very fine copy in a mosaic binding probably of the period or slightly later. Perfectly realized, it is curiously not signed. Spine very slightly lightened, some small marginal scratches. Rare foxing.
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