BOUND BY OMEGA
Candide ou l'optimisme.
Paris.
Éditions Jules Tallandier, [1921].
8vo.
[4], xvi, [2], 174pp, [4]. Title in red and black. With 10 plates and numerous illustrations in the text by Adrein Moreau. Bound in later purple half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, stamp-signed with gilt omega symbol and dated in blind 1969 to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Spine sunned.
[Together with:] LAFAYETTE, Madame de. La princesse de clèves. Paris. A. Ferroud, 1925. Limited edition of 1225 copies, of which this is number 353. [4], 220pp, [2]. With numerous coloured illustrations in the text (seven full-page). Bound in later dark-green half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, T.E.G., stamp-signed with gilt omega symbol and dated in blind 1969 to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Inked inscription of Rosemary Gaisford to front blank fly-leaf. A trifle rubbed.
[And:] LOTI, Pierre. Pêcheur d'Islande. [Paris]. Librairie Hachette, [1928]. 271pp, [3]. Bound in later dark-green half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt and blind to spine, T.E.G., stamp-signed in blind with omega symbol and dated in blind '70' to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Inked inscription of Rosemary Walker to front blank fly-leaf.
[And:] MAUPASSANT, Guy de. Contes choisis. Stockholm. Jan Förlag, [1946]. 364pp. Bound in later burgundy half-morocco, decorated paper boards, T.E.G., stamp-signed in blind with omega symbol and dated in blind '70' to rear turn-in.
[Together with:] LAFAYETTE, Madame de. La princesse de clèves. Paris. A. Ferroud, 1925. Limited edition of 1225 copies, of which this is number 353. [4], 220pp, [2]. With numerous coloured illustrations in the text (seven full-page). Bound in later dark-green half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, T.E.G., stamp-signed with gilt omega symbol and dated in blind 1969 to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Inked inscription of Rosemary Gaisford to front blank fly-leaf. A trifle rubbed.
[And:] LOTI, Pierre. Pêcheur d'Islande. [Paris]. Librairie Hachette, [1928]. 271pp, [3]. Bound in later dark-green half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt and blind to spine, T.E.G., stamp-signed in blind with omega symbol and dated in blind '70' to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Inked inscription of Rosemary Walker to front blank fly-leaf.
[And:] MAUPASSANT, Guy de. Contes choisis. Stockholm. Jan Förlag, [1946]. 364pp. Bound in later burgundy half-morocco, decorated paper boards, T.E.G., stamp-signed in blind with omega symbol and dated in blind '70' to rear turn-in.
A collection of four choice copies of French classics handsomely bound by an anonymous artisan, mysteriously identified only by the Greek character omega.
£ 500.00
Antiquates Ref: 33882
