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Une nuit de Cléopatre.
- Title
- Une nuit de Cléopatre. Illustrée de vingt-et-une compositions par Paul Avril. Préface par Anatole France.
- Author
- Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872.
- Publication
- Paris, A. Ferroud, 1894.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 1894 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- France, Anatole, 1844-1924.
- Description
- 2 p.l., xx, 82 p., 11., 6 pl., 67 extra pl. illus.; 8vo.
- Subject
- Fiction, French
- Note
- Special copy on Whatman paper. Initialed by the publisher.
- Illustrations: title-page vignette, 6 plates, 6 head-pieces, 6 tail-pieces, and 3 vignettes in the text, with the 22 original pen and ink drawings for the same, 22 plate proofs of the pure etching, and 22 plate proofs before letters, with remarque. Inserted as frontispiece, an original aquarelle by Paul Avril. In all, 89 illustrations.
- Binding, by Mercier, of brown crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides within a frame of two single line fillets inclosing a third frame inlaid in blue and a border of lotus blossoms.
- Binding, by Mercier, of brown crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides within a frame of two single line fillets inclosing a third frame inlaid in blue and a border of lotus blossoms inlaid in yellow, white, black, green, and burnt orange. Center panel within a frame inlaid in blue with semicircular indentations at the corners inclosing scarabs inlaid in black, burnt orange, and green. Doubé with brown morocco within a border of small tools. Center panel surrounded by a deep mosaic dentelle border of Egyptian style inclosed by fillets in gilt and a frame inlaid in green. Back tooled, lettered, and inlaid with units from the design on the sides. With marbled end papers, edges gilt over rough, and lining of dark brown grosgrain silk. Original covers bound in.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1894
- OCLC
- 131739197
- Author
- Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872.
- Title
- Une nuit de Cléopatre. Illustrée de vingt-et-une compositions par Paul Avril. Préface par Anatole France.
- Imprint
- Paris, A. Ferroud, 1894.
- Added Author
- France, Anatole, 1844-1924.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1894