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Louis Edouard Fournier
Le Passant
Louis Edouard Fournier - Le Passant - 1869.
Louis Edouard Fournier (Illustrator)
"Le Passant"
Francois Coppee (Author)
Paris: Armand Magnier, Editeur, 1869.

(11 1/4 " x 7 3/4") 202pp. 95 illustrations.
General condition: Pristine. Exterior: Fine. Interior: Clean, Light Foxing. Plates and original paper wrappers bound in full tan leather binding by Adenis. Contained in faux wood slipcase and chemise. Hinge of slipcase is cracked. Some minor foxing to just 2 or 3 pages, well in the margins.
Ex. no.: 110/300.

Binder: George Adenis. Full leather tan binding with ivory inlays and guitar string-like design over center circle.

Italian Renaissance comedy in acts, illustrated with engravings by Fournier. There are two of each illustration, one engraving with the text, one without. Compositions of Louis Edouard Fournier; engravings by Leon Boisson. Facsimile reproduction of the author's manuscript, and a page of music by J. Massenet. This is example no. 110, 1 of 140 examples on velin de cuve, with a double suite of engravings.


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