Gérard de Nerval / F.-A. Cosyns - Les Chimères - 1919

Gérard de Nerval, Les Chimères. Paris, at the printer Léon Pichon, 5 rue Christine, 1919.

Original edition illustrated with a frontispiece engraved on wood by F.-A. Cosyns (1875-1950), Belgian painter and engraver.

Limited edition of 331 numbered copies: 1 on large De La Rue vélin, 20 on Japan vellum (nos. 2-21), 30 on chine (nos. 22-51), 280 on vélin à la cuve from Papeteries d'Annonay (nos. 52-331). This copy bears no. 288.

Copy with documented bibliophile provenance: ex-libris of Jean Varille (son of the Lyonnais scholar Mathieu Varille, 1885-1963).

Condition: cover slightly warped, interior very fresh and complete.