[SCHWABE (Carlos)] - LAMENNAIS (Felicity of). Words of a believer. Preface by Gabriel Séailles. Paris: printed for Charles Meunier, 1908. - In-folio, 325 x 237 : portrait, (2 ff.), 191 pp., (1 f.), illustrated cover. Eggplant morocco, gilded fillets, dishes decorated with a beautiful frame consisting of a wheel with motifs of volutes of gilded foliage wrapped around a branch, interspersed with radiating silver crosses, radiating medallion crosses at the corners, spine ribbed and decorated in the same spirit, eggplant morocco frame inside, decorated with gilded fillets and a radiating medallion cross at the corners, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Ch. Meunier 1909). A remarkable edition of 166 copies, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, frames, decorative vignettes and 45 etchings after Carlos Schwabe. One of 50 copies on vellum, containing a separate suite of all the etchings printed before the letter, a suite on vellum of the 42 unused floral frames and a statement of all the culs-de-lampe contained in the work. Very nice copy bound at the time by Charles Meunier, publisher of the book.
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[SCHWABE (Carlos)] - LAMENNAIS (Felicity of).
Words of a believer. Preface
by Gabriel Séailles.
Paris: printed for Charles Meunier, 1908. - In-folio, 325 x 237 : portrait, (2 ff.), 191 pp., (1 f.), illustrated cover. Eggplant morocco, gilded fillets, dishes decorated with a beautiful frame consisting of a wheel with motifs of volutes of gilded foliage wrapped around a branch, interspersed with radiating silver crosses, radiating medallion crosses at the corners, spine ribbed and decorated in the same spirit, eggplant morocco frame inside, decorated with gilded fillets and a radiating medallion cross at the corners, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case
(Ch. Meunier 1909). A
remarkable edition of 166 copies, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, frames, decorative vignettes and 45 etchings after
Carlos Schwabe.
One of 50 copies on vellum, containing a separate suite of all the etchings printed before the letter, a suite on vellum of the 42 unused floral frames and a statement of all the culs-de-lampe contained in
the work.
Very nice copy bound at the time by Charles Meunier, publisher of the book.
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