STAAL DE LAUNAY (Madame de). Memoirs. With a preface by Baro - Lot 212

STAAL DE LAUNAY (Madame de). Memoirs. With a preface by Baroness Double. Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles, Jouaust, 1890. 2 in-8 volumes, midnight blue morocco, covers decorated with a fleur-de-lis wheel pattern and a border of rushes around which garlands of flowers wind, adorned with scrolls and two grotesques, embossed spine, interior frame decorated with the same morocco leather, lining and endpapers of colored silk, edges gilt on endpapers, cover and spine, slipcases (Ch. Meunier 1908). 41 etchings by Adolphe Lalauze, including a portrait and 8 separate plates. Printed in an edition of 185 copies; this is one of 125 on Holland paper containing the engravings in three states, two of which are signed. A very fine copy in an elegant binding by Charles Meunier, from the Tissot-Dupont library.

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