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Illustrated with fourteen plates out of text by Mariette Lydis, headbands and culs-de-lampe by Sylvain Sauvage, who in the mid-twenties became his own publisher and became known as an illustrator and decorator of considerable style -
Numbered copy on vellum in the Bernard-Dumas form -
Edmond Rostand / Mariette Lydis - Chantecler - 1938
Very good condition of the binding, work in its original green half-leather with corners, very good condition of the covers and the spine, spine with raised bands, gilt title -
Very good interior condition, book adorned with very beautiful color engravings out of text including frontispiece, as well as beautiful black and white headbands and tailpieces, marbled flyleaves -
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