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Histoire de l'empereur : racontée dans une grange par un vieux soldat
- Title
- Histoire de l'empereur : racontée dans une grange par un vieux soldat / Préface de Henry Houssaye. [Les eaux-fortes en couleurs gravées par Adolphe Lalauze d'après les aquarelles originales de son fils Alphonse Lalauze.].
- Author
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
- Publication
- Paris : H. Leclerc, 1904.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. French 1904 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 3 p.l., (i)iv-viii, 59 p., 1 l., 1 pl. 31 extra pl.; sq. 8̕.
- Subject
- Note
- Illustrations: frontispiece, and 14 vignettes in the text, with one of five sets of 15 artist's proofs (no. 2), autographed by the engraver; appended, 15 impressions in black from the original plates; inserted following the half-title, an original aquarelle by Alphonse Lalauze. In all, 46 illustrations.
- Binding, by Joly fils, 1906, of green crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides inlaid with bands of dark brown morocco forming a frame and a large diamond shaped center panel, both outlined with fillets in gilt. Center panel tooled with a border of curved fillets and small ornaments in the angles; at the bottom, the monogram of Mr. Spencer; corners tooled with the Napoleonic eagle within a victor's wreath and small ornaments surrounded by two lines fillets. Mosaic doublure consisting of large circular compartments outlined by fillets of dark brown and gilt intersecting at right angles; the interspaces tooled with a victor's wreath on a mosaic of blue and adorned with small ornaments in gilt on a mosaic of orange. Back tooled, lettered, and inlaid. With edges gilt over marbled and lining of dark brown silk. Original covers bound in. In loose leather protective cover, tooled and lettered, and inserted in slip case.
- Bookplate of W. A. Spencer.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1904
- OCLC
- 131739743
- Author
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
- Title
- Histoire de l'empereur : racontée dans une grange par un vieux soldat / Préface de Henry Houssaye. [Les eaux-fortes en couleurs gravées par Adolphe Lalauze d'après les aquarelles originales de son fils Alphonse Lalauze.].
- Imprint
- Paris : H. Leclerc, 1904.
- Local Note
- no. 76 of 100 copies on wove paper.
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- Added Author
- Houssaye, Henry, 1878-1911.Lalauze, Alphonse, ill.Lalauze, Adolphe, engraver.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1904