Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ALMANACH DU BIBLIOPHILE. Illustrations and decorations by or after Bellery-Desfontaines, Florian, Steinlen, Grasset, Colin, and Dunki. Half-titles. 6 volumes. Square 8vo, contemporary 1/2 red morocco gilt, flat spines divided by false bands into 6 compartments, lettered in one with simple design of vertical and curving fillets in the rest, original wrappers bound in (except for Volume 1 rear wrapper), light wear to spine ends, Volume 4 spine scuffed, Volume 6 front rubbed with small portion worn through; contents clean. Paris: Édouard Pelletan, 1898-1903
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all published. issue on china paper limited to 100 numbered copies of the first volume and 50 numbered copies of the rest, from total editions of 1200 (Volume 1), 1000 (Volumes 2 and 3), and 900 (Volumes 4-6). "These six volumes have their significant place in the history of book collecting through . . . articles on fine binding, notable collectors, the rare-book market, and other bibliophilic subjects"--Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 280.