Lot no. 185
HENRIOT & MAUPASSANT (Guy de). Imprudence, sketch by Henriot. Paris, Aux dépens d'un ami des livres [Albert Bélinac], 1899. In-8, bradel paperback, boards covered in pink silk with light pink decoration in royal blue jansenist morocco, title in red marble on spine, covers preserved (V. Champs). First separate edition of this tale, first published in the collection Monsieur Parent, with only 100 copies printed on Japon. It is entirely calligraphied and decorated throughout the text by Henriot with 76 pretty watercolours. N°76 is enriched with a suite on Chine of all the illustrations. "Sought-after edition. Perfect reproduction of the originals of a manuscript by the artist once executed for L. Conquet." Carteret, Le Trésor du bibliophile, IV, 270. A very fine copy. Ex-libris J.M.
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