Gamiani ou Deux Nuits d’Exces

Paris: Pour les Amis de l'Epoque Romantique [Maurice Duflou], 1924.
First Thus.

28.5cm x 22.5cm. 85 pages, 12 hand-coloured plates. Half leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, retaining the original wrappers. Text is in French.

The first serious reprint of Gamiani, with the text revised against the original edition, and the preface, by Louis Perceau, for the first time attempting a bibliography of the much reprinted work. One of 300 numbered copies (from a total edition of 320). The 12 heliogravures after the lithographs of the 1833 Brussels edition, and the title page of that edition reproduced in facsimile. This copy with the plates expertly hand-coloured. PERCEAU 16-36, PIA 529, DUTEL 1635.

Very minor shelf and handling wear. Very occasional minor soiling. Near Fine Condition.

AU$1,500