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The preface entitled "Essai de paradox sur le rire" is by Marcel Schwob.
One of the numbered copies on Vélin d'Arches paper is number 449.
Volume as published at the time, paperback under green cover, folded printed in white, under protective glassine paper, complete with cardboard slipcase.
Book in excellent condition. Solid case a little rubbed.
"At the time of the publication of this "pictures-novel of office life", in 1893, it was still necessary to take gloves to brush up on the slowness of the administration; the publisher warns that it is necessary see a succession of paintings imperceptibly linked to each other [...] studio fillers, and nothing more, sketched at the good fortune of the moment, with no other claim than to make you smile"
AUTHOR: Georges Courteline; wk; Marcel Schwob
TITLE: Gentlemen leather circles.
PUBLISHER: Paris, Javal & Bourdeaux, 1927 (limited edition of 590 copies, this one of 350 on Vélin d'Arches). Flight. in-4 of 33 x 25cm from: frontispiece, (2 ff.), VI, 152 pp., (1 f.), 14 plates
Subject Superb 15 Plates SEM Essay on the laughter of Marcel SCHWOB Gentlemen rounds of leather. CUTELINE Javal & Bourdeaux, 1927 67507859
