NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]Livre Rare Book
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La Passion illustrée sinon illustre de N.-S. Gambetta The Illustrated if not Illustrious Passion of N.-S. Gambetta
1882Best.-Nr. 49432Paris: chés l'auctheur 1882. Fine. chés l'auctheur Paris s. d. 1882 14 x 19 cm relié first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta one of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper. Binding to open bradel ivory wove smooth back red mesh coaching boards and boards painted in watercolor compositions centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front cover and Léon Gambetta embodying Christ crucified fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in contemporary binding signed Dodé. Nadar handwritten signature under the justification of the draw. In addition this copy is enriched with a handwritten correction Nadar pencil in The Passion p. 45 to orveitan sic. Book adorned the author of illustrations. Provenance: Library of Frederick Lachèvre bibliographer specialist in French poetry with its large bookplate engraved and painted emblem repeated in the first boardes. A book illustration is reproduced on the lower flat of each volume. Some light and light bites to bookbinding. chés l'auctheur hardcover
