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Title: Contes choisis / Publiés par les Bibliophiles contemporains.
Author: Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.
Publication: Paris : Imprimé aux frais et pour les sociétaires de l'Académie des beaux livres, 1891-1892.

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Request Appointment 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 1891-1892	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

10 parts in 1 v. 12 pl. 8 extra pl. illus.; 8̕.

Subject

Fiction, French

Note

Le loup. Hautot père et fils. Allouma. Mouche. La Maison Tellier. Un soir. Le champ d'oliviers. Mademoiselle Fifi. L'épave. Une partie de campagne.
Illustrations: colored etchings, engravings, lithographs, etc., by Van Muyden, Jeanniot, Avril, Gueldry, Vidal, Scott, Gervais, Gérardin, and Morel, engraved by various artists, and consisting of 126 vignettes in the text, and 12 plates. Extra illustrations: general engraved title-page by P. Avril after F. Rops, 6 lithographs by Lunois on Japan paper for "T Épave," and a colored frontispiece and 5 original aquarelles on the margins by H. Dillon for "Une partie de campagne." In all, 151 illustrations.
Binding, by Meunier, of blue crushed levant morocco, gilt. Front panel adorned with conventionalized daisies, leaves, and sprays of pinks inlaid in appropriate colors, a large letter S inlaid and entwined with the stems, and with swallows in the open space. Back panel tooled and inlaid with a spray of forget-me-nots passing through a life-preserver inscribed Bel ami, with swallows in the open spaces. Doublé with light blue morocco inlaid with doves and a spray of red flowers and green buds and leaves. Back tooled and lettered. With edges gilt over rough, marbled end papers, and lining of solk, brocaded with flowers and stripes in colors. Original covers, together with those to each part, bound in. Inserted in slip case.
Bookplaté of W. A. Spencer.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1891-1892

OCLC

131739054

Author

Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.

Title

Contes choisis / Publiés par les Bibliophiles contemporains.

Imprint

Paris : Imprimé aux frais et pour les sociétaires de l'Académie des beaux livres, 1891-1892.

Local Note

no. 132 of 188 copies printed for members of the society; this copy printed for M. Frédéric Raisin, with his bookplate. Text within ornamental watermarked borders. Inserted, part of an autograph letter of the author to Mme. Maupassant.

Added Author

Muyden, Evert van, ill.

Jeanniot, Pierre Georges, ill.

Avril, Paul, ill.

Gueldry, Ferdinand Joseph, ill.

Vidal, Marie Louis Pierre, ill.

Scott, Georges, ill.

Gervais, Paul Jean Louis, ill.

Gérardin, Auguste, ill.

Morel, Charles, ill.

Rops, Félicien, 1833-1898. Illustrator

Lonois, Alexandre, ill.

Dillon, Henri Patrice, ill.

Bibliophiles contemporains (Académie des beaux livres) Société des Bris.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1891-1892

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