MAUPASSANT (Guy de). - Lot 565

Lot n° 565
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MAUPASSANT (Guy de). - Lot 565
MAUPASSANT (Guy de). Cinq contes parisiens. Paris : Pour les Cent Bibliophiles, 1905. - Large in-8, 290 x 181 : 97 pp, (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Soft lemon half morocco with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed, cover and spine retained (Noulhac). "Beautiful book, very sought after and rightly so" (Carteret), printed at only 130 copies on japan and illustrated with 82 original etchings by Louis LEGRAND, including 6 in full-page colour and 76 in bistre in the text. A copy specially printed for Judge Ernest Droin (n° 36), one of the founders of the Société des Amis des Livres et des Cent bibliophiles. It has been very well bound by Noulhac and enriched with the illustrated cover of the meal menu given at the end of the annual general meeting of the Society of One Hundred Bibliophiles on December 13, 1904, and with a very fine original etching by Edgar Chahine, signed and dated 1903 in the plate and dated "June 1904" in pencil in the margin. Provenance: Ernest Droin, with his bookplate.
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