King Candaules
Paris: Societe Des Beaux Arts, [Undated]. Limited Edition for England and America. Hardcover. A Very Good or better copy of the Salon edition, being Number 40 of 550 copies published for England and America (with the text in English) with a tissue-guarded color frontispiece, an illustrated title page and 19 additional tissue-guarded color illustrations (with the tissue guards lightly toned but showing some light spots). The book is bound in three-quarters blue leather (having the spine edges rubbed but with the leather's colour remainging rich and the spine unfaded), spine is lettered and decorated in gilt and the interior edges of the leather are lined in gilt. The boards are otherwise marbled boards, the closed page block in top edge is in gilt and the leaves are in various sizes as issued. Within, the pastedowns and facing side of each free endpaper is marbled. Candaules was a king of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia in the early years of the 7th century BC, Anatole France won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature, and "Paul Avril" was the pseudonym of Édouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1849 – 28 July 1928), a French painter and commercial artist who worked, at least in part, as an illustrator of erotic literature. Very good +. Item #3642
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