Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOK.) SOMM, HENRY. Berline de l'Émigré ou Jamais trop tard pour bien faire: Comédie en 1 Acte. extra-illustrated with original ink, pencil, and watercolor drawings by somm, comprising frontispiece and 44 interior illustrations, some printed, full-page, many head- and tail-pieces, many initialed or Signed, originals surrounding some small printed text vignettes. Printed on Japan paper. Thin 8vo, 3/4 gilt-lettered red morocco over patterned boards, by Champs, Paris, some rubbing. Paris: En Vente au Chat Noir, 1885

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number 16 of only 50 copies on japan paper, a presentation copy for publisher and bookseller roldolphe salis from Somm and Charles de Sivry, initialed by Somm. A beautiful and elegant little publication, printed for the premiere of the play on Christmas Day, 1885.