HUYSMANS. L'OBLAT. Paris, Stock 1903. large volume in-12, ha - Lot 173

HUYSMANS. L'OBLAT. Paris, Stock 1903. large volume in-12, half morocco with corners, spine decorated with cold, t. gilt, cover and spine (Lucie Weill) ORIGINAL EDITION. One of 80 copies on Hollande, specially printed for his friend Léon Lectaire and bearing a BEAUTIFUL AUTOGRAPHIC ENVOI by Huysmans. It is further enriched by a 4-PAGE SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER addressed to an Oblate sister in Paris, announcing his departure for Strasbourg... he is to see several paintings of primitives, news of various cloisters, congregations... A very fine copy, finely bound by Lucie Weill, a bookseller-binder specializing in high-bibliophile copies, for which she was responsible for the binding. (Fétis, 177).