68. ALPHONSE DAUDET ON JAPAN IMPERIAL IN BINDINGS BY CHAMPS-STROOBANTS.

Daudet, Alphonse & Bayard, Em. , illustrator. Fromont jeune et Risler ainé I-II. Moeurs parisiennes. Notice littéraire par Gustave Geffroy. Two volumes. Librairie L. Conquet, Paris, 1885. Two 8vo volumes in dark blue half morocco bindings with gilt decorated spines and gilt lined marbled boards. Top edges gilt, else uncut. Marbled endpapers. Original wrappers and spine preserved. Bound by Champs-Stroobants with their name stamp on front free endpaper. Bibliophile edition. No. 45 of 150 copies on Japanese imperial paper, the largest paper. Illustrated with 12 engravings by Em. Bayard, all present in two states. Portrait of Daudet as frontispiece on both volumes. (IV), XXIV, 292 p. , (IV) + illustrations & (IV), 366 p. , (II) + illustrations. In the first volume an inserted engraving of the exlibris of S. Eug. Jacob. Provenance also the Swedish book collector HJ Hintze with his exlbris.