[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - GIDE, André.

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[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - GIDE, André.
Paludes. Paris, Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, 1895. In-8 square [199 x 187] of (4) ff., 100 pp, (2) ff. : wine lees calf, boards decorated with oblique cold lines cut with thin horizontal bands lamées d'argent, name of the author and title in capital letters lamées d'argent on the first board, smooth spine decorated with three small horizontal bands of the same metallic pieces, quintuple gilt fillet inside, painted linings and endpapers, gilt edges, cover preserved (Louise-Denise Germain). First edition. One of 388 numbered copies on antique hollande (n° 300). Pleasant decorated binding. "This is probably the oldest of the four bindings by L.-D. Germain recorded on a work by André Gide, the other two that could be described being each realized in a very different style" (Fabienne Le Bars). The binding is not signed. Hinges restored. Some foxing. Provenance : Jean A. Bonna, with ex-libris. Exhibition : Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 2017, n° 54.
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