MAUPASSANT (Guy de)

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MAUPASSANT (Guy de)
Selected tales. Paris, Académie des Beaux-Livres, 1891-1892. Grand in-8, blue-grey morocco, Jansenist, mosaic motif on the back, red morocco lining decorated with a large composition with irises in the stems of which a snake intertwines, frame of a thorny stem, recall of the decoration on the second counterplate, brocaded silk endplate, gilded edges on witnesses (Ch. Meunier, 1906) Pretty publication, edited by Octave Uzanne, president of the Bibliophiles contemporains. The illustration involves various engraving techniques: lithography, heliogravure, woodcutting, etching. The tales Le Loup, a hunting story and Mouche, a souvenir of a canoeist, are entirely printed in intaglio, the text engraved by A. Leclère. It includes 10 stories, 9 of which are illustrated by 9 artists: E. Van Meyden, G. Jeanniot, P. Avril, F. Gueldry, P. Vidal, G. Scott, P. Gervais, A. Gérardin, and A. Lunois; the last tale is not illustrated, as it was planned that each member of the society would reserve the right to have it decorated in the margins with original drawings by the artists of their choice. Copy in a lined binding by Charles Meunier. Here, the last tale, Une Partie de campagne, is illustrated with 6 large full-page watercolours and a cul-de-lampe by H. Dillon. The copy includes the pretty delivery covers, very much in the taste of Octave Uzanne (Un Soir's has burnished the guards facing him). Back very slightly past.
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