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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Oct 11 @ 13:00UTC+1
GAUTIER, Théophile.- L' Eldorado ou Fortunio. Publié sur l'édition originale. Paris, Imprimé pour les Amis du Livre, 1880. In-8°. Relié par Marius Michel : plein maroquin bleu outremer, plats sertis d'un sextuple filet doré entrecroisé, dos à nerfs et caissons ornés de même, roul. dorée sur les coupes, doublures de maroq. rose saumonné orné de jeux de filets dorés entrecroisés, gardes volantes de soie brochée bleue, doubles gardes de papier marbré, couv. et dos cons. (petites piqûres sur les gardes bl., dos très lég. foncé). Sous étui.
93 compositions : 12 eaux-fortes en noir de Milius et 81 dessins de Paul Avril reproduits en héliographie en noir dont 53 sur chine hors texte (les 28 autres étant des lettrines ornées).
Tirage à 115 ex. num. sur papier vélin fort, un des 100 réservés aux souscripteurs (n° 23 pour M. Gallimard) tous accompagnés de :
- 1 suite des 12 eaux-fortes en noir avant la lettre,
- 1 suite des 81 héliogravures en bistre sur chine,
- 1 suite des 81 héliogravures en noir sur chine (sauf la lettrine de la p. 101 non imprimée sur la suite).
Notons que la vignette de l'imprimeur Motteroz a été remplacée dans les suites héliogravées par une vignette de Paul Avril.
Exemplaire enrichi de :
- 2 états de la vignette d'invitation au dîner de la Soc. des Amis du Livre, le 4 mai 1880, sur chine appliqué (134 x 98 mm et 85 x 62 mm).
# Vicaire I-42; # Talvart VI-316.
Jolie reliure finement dorée. 440 550 Euros
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