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Anatole France 1844-1924

Lot 179
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 179 | Anatole France 1844-1924
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Anatole France 1844-1924

Le Livre du Bibliophile 1874

[FRANCE, Anatole (1844-1924, pseudonym of Jacques-Anatole THIBAULT).] Le Livre du Bibliophile. Paris: J. Claye for Alphonse Lemerre, 1874.



First edition, presented by the publisher to Henri-François Marius Michel and bound by Marius Michel at the bindery he had founded with his father just two years earlier. The younger Marius Michel would later become an important innovator of binding design. Exhibited at Harvard in 1991, no. 70.



12mo (164 x 97mm). Printed on Whatman paper, no. 11 of 100 copies, signed with initials by the publisher. Title in red and black with publisher's device. Bound by Henri Marius Michel for himself: gold-tooled chestnut brown morocco, sides inlaid with black morocco to a retrospective interlace design, inlaid and gilt fleuron in compartments of spine, signed on front turn-in, top edges gilt, others uncut; modern clamshell box. Provenance: Henri-François Marius Michel (1846-1923; bookplate, binding), presented to him by the publisher: ‘à Monsieur Marius, fils. Hommage bien sympathique, A. Lemerre’ – Claude Guérin (Paris sale, 7 December 1990, lot 79) – Bernard Breslauer (sale Christie’s, Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, 27-28 June 2005, lot 1348).

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