PLEIADE (la). - Lot 246

Lot n° 246
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PLEIADE (la). - Lot 246
PLEIADE (la). Ballads, fables, short stories and legends. Homer, Veda-Vyasa, Marie de France, Burger, Hoffmann, Ludwieg Tieck, Ch. Dickens, Gavarni, H. Blaze. Paris, Curmer, 1842. Small in-8, blue half-maroquin with long grain and corners, spine finely decorated with gilded and mosaic motifs in red, cream and lemon, untrimmed, white cover with frames and vignettes and spine preserved (Mercier sr. de Cuzin) First edition. Delightful collection of eleven tales, fabliaux or ballads, ancient and modern, illustrated by Jacque, Penguilly, Trimolet, Féart and Daubigny. The illustration consists of a total of 10 etched frontispieces, 56 in-text woodcut vignettes, 10 etched vignettes printed on chine and pasted down for the episodes of Rosemonde and Madame Acker, an out-of-text etching and woodcut borders for the episode of the Mahabharata. A very fine copy, in a mosaic binding by Mercier, with its ornate white cover, in this case in havana, preserved with its spine in mint condition
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