[GIRARD (Antoine). Lettre d'un candidat ou l'Entrée à Bibliopolis. Paris, printed for A. Girard, 1896. In-8, bradel blue half-maroquin, smooth spine decorated with a gilt mosaic motif, gilt head, untrimmed, cover (Period binding). Unique edition of this bibliophilic poem, decorated with a title vignette, a header, a cul-de-lampe and an out-of-text figure drawn by Paul Avril and etched by Gaujean. Edition of 115 copies hors commerce on Whatman paper, this one with the engravings in three states (pure etching, before and with the letter), enriched with an autograph tribute by the author on a visiting card. From the Georges Baillon library, with bookplate. Spine slightly faded.