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VIII (Introduction by Pierre Mornand), 160pp., In-folio of 34x26cm, 2,5kg.
Cream casing, cream shirt with red fabric back decorated with a gold title piece in lamination. Broached under cover with flaps decorated on the first plate with a pretty waffled pattern. In sheets.
Friction, wear of use on casing and binding (without gravity) to corners, edges and back. Paperback in good condition. Clean and fresh interior. Enriched with off-text color illustrations (under serpents) by G. de Sainte-Croix.
One of the 300 copies on pure vellum thread Johannot à la Forme, numbered from 51 to 350, copy No. 90.
Very nice copy. 67555991
