Lot n° 474
Estimation :
200 - 300
EUR
Le Roux & Jules Garnier, Les jeux du cirque. - Lot 474
Le Roux & Jules Garnier, Les jeux du cirque.
Paris, Plon-Nourrit, 1889. In-4.
Original edition illustrated with numerous in-text vignettes by Jules Garnier, here enhanced with watercolors. Deluxe copy on japon. Edition of 50 copies, this one unnumbered: "Exemplaire réservé, imprimé pour Monsieur Adolphe Nourrit".
"What we are publishing here is, properly speaking, told through pen and image, the monograph of an unknown people [...] we shall witness the organization of the banker people, the founding of their agencies, their newspapers, their unions; we shall follow the bateleur from his birth in the fairground caravan to his apotheosis in the circus frieze". Vicaire, V, 225.
Red half calf with corners, double gilt fillet on covers, ornate spine ribbed, gilt title and author, gilt head. Waxing on corners, edges and spines.
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