CHAMPEVILLE (Paul de) - ROBAUDI (Alcide). - Lot 735

CHAMPEVILLE (Paul de) - ROBAUDI (Alcide). Les Rebelles. Play in three acts. Paris: printed for A. Bélinac, 1903. - In-8, 250 x 175: frontispiece, 114 pp, (1 f.), 3 plates, printed cover. Half caramel morocco with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated with a burgundy morocco frame, two gilt quivers in burgundy morocco circles, and a gilt ivy branch mosaiced in havana morocco, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Blanchetière Bretault). First illustrated edition of this play, first performed in Saint-Étienne in January 1902, printed in Paris for the Loire industrialist and bibliophile Albert Bélinac. It is adorned with 11 etchings by Alcide ROBAUDI (1850-1928), engraved by Henri Manesse, including one on the title, 3 at the head of each act, 3 at the end of each act, and 4 hors texte, including the frontispiece. Only 100 copies of this edition were published on Japon impérial, plus a few copies outside the trade. This one, numbered 78, includes a suite of etchings on japon with remarks. A very fine copy in mosaic binding by Blanchetière, who signed his name alongside that of his father-in-law Bretault from 1906. Spine slightly faded, rubbing to edges of boards. Provenance: bookplate bearing the initials L.D.