Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Sac au Dos. Compositions et Gravure Originale de Barlangue. Paris: Librairie de la Collection des Dix, A. Romagnol, Éditeur, [1913]

Large 8vo (11 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.; 283 x 196 mm). Title printed in red and black, etched plates in six states, 20 original drawings in pencil which served as studies for the illustrations. Red crushed morocco, double-fillet border, frame of gilt-ruled interlaced lines, spine gilt, edges gilt, red morocco doublures with inlaid dark red morocco frame and triple-fillet borders, endleaves of maroon watered silk, original prospectus bound in, by E. Maylander, in a morocco-trimmed slipcase.

Henri Burton (bookplate, purchased at a Lardanchet sale, 12 December 1936)

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Unique copy with 20 original drawings, plates in six states, the unpublished preface by Gustave Coquiot, two autograph letters signed by Coquiot, and a long and interesting autograph letter signed by Huysmans about Victor Hugo tipped in (27 January 1902).