LOTI PIERRE [Maurice de Becque] - Lot 268

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LOTI PIERRE [Maurice de Becque] - Lot 268
LOTI PIERRE [Maurice de Becque] Le mariage de Loti Paris, 1927, Librairie Lemercier, in-4 full plum morocco lined with blue morocco, decorated with mosaic and gilded fillets and large stylized green mosaic butterflies. Green tabis endpapers. Bordered slipcase. Binding signed Affolter. All edges gilt. 34 original compositions by Maurice de Becque, including 21 hors-texts, stencilled by Jean Saudé. Edition of 285 copies, this one is ONE OF 26 EXEMPLES ON JAPON WITH A SUITE IN BLACK AND AN ORIGINAL AQUARELLE by the artist, signed, pasted on a white sheet. Fléty, p.10, tells us that Paul Affolter established himself in Paris in 1880, producing standard bindings for the Fontaine bookshop. It was not until 1894 that he began to produce bindings for bibliophiles. Mahé II-709 / Carteret IV-245 "Edition estimée et cotée en grand papier." Very slight rubbing to upper spine.
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