TAINE (Hippolyte).

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TAINE (Hippolyte).
Voyage aux Pyrénées. Third edition, illustrated by Gustave Doré. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1860. In-8, blue half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Mercier sr de Cuzin). Third edition, reworked and considerably enlarged, the first one in in-8 format (the first edition, also illustrated by Gustave Doré, had been given in in-12 format in 1855). 350 woodcut vignettes in the text after Doré, all in first printing except for the "full page" ones, included in the pagination, i.e. about fifty, coming from the edition of 1855 One of the very rare copies on large vellum paper, an edition reported by H. Leblanc, Gustave Doré's bibliographer, but unknown to Vicaire, Brivois and Carteret. From the libraries of Van der Rest (1964, n° 153) and Villeboeuf
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