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Paris, Libraire L. Conquet, 1893. In the 16th. Figured frontispiece, frontispiece imprinted in red and black, with the illustrations in two states, for a total of 48 compositions in black and white by Maurice Leloir engraved on wood by F. Noël, at the end of the volume the "Supplement au Catologue de décembre 1803" , of smaller format, consisting of 4 pages with 3 compositions already present in the text, editorial paperback in ivory cardboard illustrated in color preserved in binding in brown Moroccan half, signed on the guard sheet, on the smooth spine stylized friezes and engraved auroras and title in gold.
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Refined work in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies, ours is no. 35, one of 80 from the top edition imprinted on "papier de Chine et Japon", with the two states of the illustrations , in signed binding. First separate edition of the work of Count Charles Nodier (1780-1844). The author was considered a forerunner of Romanticism and was elected à l’Académie in 1833, he was also an Arsenal librarian after 1824 and a passionate bibliophile.