Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[DORAT, CLAUDE-JOSEPH.] Set of 198 proofs of the engraved head- and tailpieces after Marillier for the same edition of Dorat's Fables Nouvelles, interleaved with blanks and bound in 2 volumes. 8vo, 252x168 mm, 19th-century red morocco gilt by Chambolle-Duru; offsetting from engravings onto adjacent blanks throughout, scattered foxing on the engravings. Bookplates of Cortlandt F. Bishop and Mary S. Collins. Np, nd

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number eight of only ten sets of proofs recorded by Cohen-de Ricci.