GOUDEAU (Emile). - LEPÈRE, Auguste. - Lot 75

GOUDEAU (Emile). - LEPÈRE, Auguste. Parisian landscapes, hours and seasons. Illustrations composed and engraved on wood and etching by Auguste Lepère. Paris, printed for Henri Beraldi, 1892. - In-8, 264 x 178 : front cover, XV, 175 pp, 4 plates, illustrated cover. Caramel morocco, decorated on the boards with a gilt composition formed by intertwined geometrical motifs in a frame underlined by a gilt fillet, double fillet inside framing a geometrical composition, spine decorated with nerves, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved, lined case (Chambolle-Duru). First edition illustrated with five etchings outside the text and forty-two original woodcuts in the text, drawn and engraved by Auguste LEPÈRE. Edition at 138 numbered copies on Papeteries du Marais wove paper. A copy specially printed for the bookbinder René-Victor Chambolle (1834-1898), who placed it in a very nice decorated morocco case. Provenance: René Victor Chambolle (1834-1898). - Édouard Rahir (1862-1924) with bookplate (sale VI, 1938, n° 1955).