BOURCARD (Gustave). Drawings, gouaches, prints... - Lot 18 - Ader

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BOURCARD (Gustave). Drawings, gouaches, prints... - Lot 18 - Ader
BOURCARD (Gustave). Drawings, gouaches, prints and paintings of the eighteenth century. Guide of the amateur. Paris : Damascene Morgand, 1893. - Large in-8, midnight blue half-maroquin with corners, gilt filets, smooth spine decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover kept (Carayon). First edition of this work, a kind of guide for collectors of 18th century prints, drawings and paintings. It was printed at 605 copies, this one being one of the 5 on Hollande paper reserved for the author, without number, justified and signed by the latter. It was offered to the great collector of prints Louis Valentin, and bears this autograph dispatch on the false title : " to Mr Louis Valentin, to the amateur, to the lover of prints, I offer this humble volume as a testimony of my deep gratitude. G. Bourcard ". Very nice copy bound by Carayon. Transfer of an old bookmark pages 24-25, some scattered foxing, not serious.
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