NODIER (Charles).

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NODIER (Charles).
Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux. Paris, Delangle, 1830. In-8, contemporary binding in long-grained blue morocco, gilt filleting on the boards and spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Bauzonnet). First edition and first printing. Fifty woodcut vignettes in the text by Porret after Tony Johannot. Famous work, brought back to the fore by the surrealists in the middle of the last century and whose revolutionary and visionary character has since been the subject of numerous studies. Innovative in many respects, both in content and form, and the first to use the graphic possibilities offered by woodcuts - five years before Gil Blas - it truly opened the Romantic period, setting the tone with its claimed freedom and fantasy. He remains today one of its most astonishing and remarkable representatives. A magnificent copy, certainly the most beautiful known, one of the six first copies on China paper, preserved as new in a fine contemporary binding signed by Bauzonnet. Of the six copies on China paper mentioned in the justification, only one other is known in a contemporary binding, unfortunately very pitted (private collection). This one, in its very elegant morocco binding signed by a master, preserved without the slightest defect, a quite exceptional condition for a romantic on chine, seems to us to be without doubt the most desirable of all. From the libraries of Germain (bookplate), H. Piquet (1884, n° 127), Paul Bellon (1896, n° 242), Henri Beraldi (III, 1934, n° 358), Laurent Meeûs (1982 catalogue, n° 407) and Raoul Simonson (I, 2013, n° 238), with their bookplates.
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