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Gérard de Nerval. Rudaux.
Sylvie.
Paris, L. Conquet, 1886.
Fees include commission and taxes.
Sylvie.
Paris, L. Conquet, 1886.
In-8, (4) leaves, including a frontispiece and portrait, XXIV–134 pp. Green morocco, ribbed spine, panels decorated with a mosaic rose and edged with a double gilt fillet with fleurons at the corners, triple gilt fillet framing the covers and double fillet on the headbands and footbands, insides of the covers lined with fawn morocco and framed by a gilt fillet and scrolls with gilt foliage in the centre adorned with mosaic red roses, endpapers lined with gilt cloth, gilt edges, original cover preserved [Marius Michel].
Carteret Illustrés, vol. IV, p. 304.
A fine copy in a binding by Marius Michel.
The illustrations consist of a frontispiece, a portrait of the author of the preface, Ludovic Halévy, and numerous illustrations by Ed. Rudaux
Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies, including 150 special edition copies on Imperial Japan paper; this is no. 2.
Etchings accompanied by two black-and-white plates.
Copy enhanced with a watercolour by Rudaux on the half-title page.