DAUDET (Alphonse). - Lot 50

DAUDET (Alphonse). The Evangelist. Parisian novel. Paris: E. Dentu, 1892. - In-8, Bradel-style white cloth, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover preserved (Henry Joseph Pierson). First illustrated edition, with full-page and in-text compositions by Marold and Montégut. A precious copy, one of 25 on japon, from the library of Edmond Goncourt, one of the author's closest friends. It is enriched with this signed autograph dispatch: "Exemplaire // du maître ami E. de Goncourt // A. Daudet." Edmond de Goncourt added this note in red ink on the first endpaper: "Exemplaire sur japon de // l'édition Guillaume // Edmond de Goncourt." A complete copy of the catalog of works published in the "Collection Guillaume" bound at the end. Some soiling to binding. Provenance: Edmond de Goncourt, with consignment from the author (sale 1897, no. 264). - ABG bookplate, engraved by Wittmann after Lalauze.