Carayon-bound leather - Copy on Japanese paper - Lot 292

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Carayon-bound leather - Copy on Japanese paper - Lot 292
Carayon-bound leather - Copy on Japanese paper CLARÉTIE (Jules) - [ZO (Henri)] La Cigarette. Illustrations by Henri ZO. Paris, Girard, 1906. In-8; 29 illustrations in and outside the text by Henri ZO, woodcut by GASPERINI, PISELLI, and CIAVARI under the direction of M. ROMAGNOL. Print run of 135 copies; one of 10 on antique Japanese paper with a set of woodblocks. Publisher’s signature on the colophon page. Tobacco-colored morocco leather signed CARAYON, spine and covers decorated with mosaic-patterned red bands, mosaic fleurons in the spandrels, double gilt fillet on the edges, caramel-colored moiré endpapers, gilt edges, slipcase. A Basque novel set against the backdrop of the Carlist War, illustrated by an excellent artist who was also Basque. The first edition was published in 1890, followed by a 1899 edition in the “Complete Works” (Talvart & Place III 136).
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