DIGNIMONT (André) - COURTELINE (Georges). - Lot 111

DIGNIMONT (André) - COURTELINE (Georges). The 8 o'clock train. 47. Paris : Sylvain Sauvage, [1927]. - In-8, 233 x 184 : frontispiece, (4 ff. 2 first blanks), 173 pp, (3 ff. 2 last blanks), 14 plates, illustrated cover. Dark blue morocco, boards and spine decorated with a kind of railway map with the motifs of a garrison, a train, gendarmes, street lamps, a station, a clock, a sun and a prison, represented in a stylized and humorous way with gilt and palladium fillets, as well as small mosaic pieces of morocco of different colors, smooth spine, palladium fillets inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, flap folder with dark blue morocco spine and bands, lined case (Durvand - Pinard Sr 1929). Edition of 320 copies, illustrated with 20 original etchings in colors by André DIGNIMONT (1891-1965), including one on the title, 4 at the head of each chapter and 14 outside the text. ONE OF THE 25 FIRST COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPON, including a copperplate, in this case that of the plate on page 100, the decomposition of the frontispiece and a suite in sanguine of all the illustrations. A very fine copy bound at the time by Pinard, successor of Durvand. The copperplate has been mounted in a special separate folder. Provenance: Heilbronn, with bookplate. - Baron Cornelius Verheyden de Lancey (1889-1984), with bookplate. - Stamp M.G.L.