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Author: Musset, Alfred de
Title: Poems [and] Works of Alfred de Musset
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Publisher:Edwin C. Hill Company
Date Published: 1905
Description:

10 volumes. Illustrated with frontispieces and a total of 141 engraved plates, many with highlights picked out in hand-painting, and with hand-colored pen and ink head and tailpieces and original watercolor marginal illustrations throughout. 22.5x14.5 cm (9x6"), publisher's full red morocco double-ruled and decorated in gilt, with gilt and cream floral borders and spine decorations, raised spine bands, titled in gilt, gray morocco doublures with gilt and red floral design and gilt borders, grey moirée free endpapers, top edges gilt. Unnumbered Presentation Copy of 58 sets printed on Japan Paper.

This set "Extra Illustrated" for Mrs. C.C. Furbush, with beautiful art nouveau borders and tailpieces, hand-inked and painted in watercolor washes. Many sections, such as Musset's novels, additionally have illustrations done in delicate watercolor in the margins. All plates are present in duplicate, most in triplicate, with one of each version hand-colored.

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Spines gently sunned, hint of wear, near fine.