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Book published by the luxury editions "Les Heures Claires", entirely produced in the Workshop of Raymond and Madeleine Jacquet.
Each page is presented in a garnet chain frame.
One of the 2450 copies on Rives vellum numbered from 451 to 2900. This one bears the number 1533.
Beautiful copy, well complete of the four volumes.
In sheets, under illustrated folded cover, decorated cardboard folder and slipcase.
Condition: Slight defects to the double - casings (back of the folders and heads of the cases a little browned. The rest in excellent condition.
Henry Lemarie
?The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha. Illustrations by Henry Lemarié (4 volumes)
The Clear Hours, 1960
in-4 (25.5 x 20.5 cm); 220, 215, 221, 229 pages
Subject: Superb Don Quixote by Cervantes Miniatures Henry Lemarié 4/4 1960 Spain 67548551
