ROSTAND (Edmond). - Lot 193

Lot n° 193
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ROSTAND (Edmond). - Lot 193
ROSTAND (Edmond). Chanteclerc. Play in four acts, in verse. Paris : Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1910. - In-8, 235 x 162 : (4 ff.), 244 pp., (1 f), illustrated leather cover. Brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt filets, smooth spine nicely decorated with gilt and mosaic motifs representing vine scrolls on which are placed birds, a rooster, a pheasant and a frog on a water lily, gilt head, untrimmed, cover kept (Flammarion Vaillant). First edition of this famous play by Edmond Rostand, performed for the first time on the stage of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin on February 7, 1910. The title role was played by Lucien Guitry. The false title is illustrated with a colored headband after a composition by the author. Copy on japon impérial, specially printed for Auguste Vaillant. A very nice copy, complete with the soft leather cover, decorated with the title and an embossed rooster profile, signed by René Lalique. It has been enriched with an original etching signed by Felix Oudart, representing Lucien Guitry in the costume of Chanteclerc, printed on japon and numbered 74/150 . Provenance : Auguste Vaillant.
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