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Du Bellay.Deffence..Langue Francoise,1/15,1925

86pp., number XIV of XV copies on Japon with a triple suite of the portrait on different papers (série b), from an edition limited to 380, printed in red, blue and black in Erasmus Mediaeval, wood-engraved portrait by J.Franken Pzn, title-vignette and half-title by Jan van Krimpen, initials by Alphonse Stols, additional suite bound in at end, bound in moulded black revorim, by Jean de Gonet (série 5 'plaque d'égout'), upper cover with part of red calf circular inlay stamped in black with 'Jean de Gonet Artefacts', edged in blue calf at fore-edge, black calf spine with exposed threads and red linen bands, signed and numbered 56/200 at foot of front pastedown, original cream wrappers bound in (a little browned at edges), 8vo, 195 x 130mm., Maastricht, Trajectum ad Mosam, to be sold at Claude Aveline bookshop of Paris, 1925.

***Trajectum ad Mosam 10. Won the Grand Prix (along with van Krimpen's 'Lutetia') at the 1925 International Exhibtion of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, and later the "Fifty Best Books of the Year" award in Stols' own country..

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