ZOLA (Émile). The Four Gospels. Fécondité. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, Eugène Fasquelle, 1899. - 2 volumes in-8, 223 x 137: (2 ff.), 345 pp, (1 f.), printed cover; (2 ff.), 405 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Red half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved (Durvand). First edition of the first of the 3 novels in the cycle of novels that the author published under the general title of Les Quatre Évangiles. One of 250 copies on Hollande paper (no. 71), with an original signed watercolour by Henry de STA (1846-1920) on japon paper, bound at the head of the first volume. A very fine copy bound by Durvand. Provenance: ex-libris JP.