LEPÈRE (Auguste). - Lot 81

LEPÈRE (Auguste). Nantes in nineteen hundred. Preface by Roger Marx. Nantes: Émile Grimaud et fils, [1900]. - In-8, 269 x 178 : (6 ff.), 133 pp., (1 f.), 4 plates, printed and embossed cover. Dark green jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, light green morocco lining decorated with a double frame of gilt fillets and a dark green morocco band, brocaded silk endpapers, double guards, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved, case (Marius Michel). First edition printed at only 220 copies on Arches vellum, illustrated with 59 figures drawn, engraved and printed by Auguste Lepère, including one etching heightened in bistre on double page, 4 etchings outside the text, and 54 woodcut figures in the text. Nominative copy, specially printed for Charles Riardant, director of the Comptoir d'Escompte agency in Nantes. A very nice copy in a lined binding by Marius Michel. It has been enriched with a proof in black before the letter of the etching on double page, bound, a proof in last state, not bound, of the first plate, justified in pencil, of the publication leaflet, as well as THREE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS SIGNED BY AUGUSTE LEPÈRE, representing views of Nantes, one of which has been used as a study for the illustration on page 103, depicting the boulevard Delorme. The other two drawings represent the Pirmil bridge and the Viarme square. All three are from one notebook, the one of the Delorme square is on two separate sheets. Spine faded. Provenance: Charles Riardant. - Doctor A. Roudinesco, with ex-libris.