Méry ; Comte Foelix. - Lot 203

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Méry ; Comte Foelix. - Lot 203
Méry ; Comte Foelix. # Muses and fairies. History of mythological women. 12 color plates by G. Staal. Paris, G. de Gonet, Martinon; Leipsick, Ch. Twietemeyer, S.D. (1851). XIV + 292pp. Large in-8. Original endpapers. Publisher's black percaline boards decorated on the first board and the spine with irons specially designed for this book. The one on the first cover represents a nymph and a Willis, sylphs of the north, in a frame composed of a tree and flowers. The two figures are a copy of a part of two plates illustrating the book (pages 93 and 230). Gilt edges. First edition and first printing of this work edited by the publisher of Grandville's "animated flowers". Bright boards. Spine restored. Ex-libris of Pierre Desmottes.
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