COUSIN (Charles). Journey in an attic. Books, earthenware, a - Lot 247

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COUSIN (Charles). Journey in an attic. Books, earthenware, a - Lot 247
COUSIN (Charles). Journey in an attic. Books, earthenware, autographs and curios. Paris, Damascéne Morgand & Charles Fatout, 1878. Small folio, emerald half-maroquin with corners, richly decorated spine, gilt head, covers and spine preserved, untrimmed (Champs). FIRST EDITION. Humorous account of this walk through the books, trinkets and earthenware of which the Toqué collection was composed. Luxurious publication decorated with numerous facsimiles and ornaments in-text and 21 plates out-of-text including 10 chromolithographs, 3 photogravures, 8 beautiful etchings including 1 full-length portrait of Baudelaire by Alfred Briend. One of 50 numbered copies ON JAPAN, with 3 states of the etchings: unfinished proofs, before and with the letter. Enriched with a MANUSCRIPT ENVOI dated and signed from the author to Edouard Lièvre (1828-1886), French painter and engraver. Missing one state of an engraving, otherwise fine condition. (Vicaire II, 1055, cites this copy). Provenances: Library Henri Bonnasse, bibliophile from Marseille (bookplate) - Library Ch. Bouret, Hispanic bookseller (engraved bookplate with the motto: Siempre mas).
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