NERCIAT (A. de): The Libertine Morning. Versailles, for the - Lot 254

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NERCIAT (A. de): The Libertine Morning. Versailles, for the - Lot 254
NERCIAT (A. de): The Libertine Morning. Versailles, for the Friends of the Good Old Times, no date. In-8 paperback. 8 illustrations (fake etchings with dummy bowl) in non-text colours and 81 line drawings in the margins enhanced in stencil colours. NICE EDITION COPYING THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF GASTON TRILLEAU PUBLISHED A FEW MONTHS BEFORE. Dutel indicates that the illustrations in this edition are by Marcel Jeanjean. A simple comparison shows that it is in fact a reprise (copy) almost identical to the illustrations given a few months earlier by Jean-Gilles Legendre alias Gaston Trilleau for the same work (Dutel, n°1939). Edition at 212 copies, this one 1/200 Rives.
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