Claude Tillier - Mon oncle Benjamin [ex unique avec 46 dessins de Louis-Ernest Lesage - reliure signée] - 1881

Claude Tillier. Mon oncle Benjamin.

Chez Conquet, Paris, 1881–1882, 2 volumes bound in 1, large octavo (17.5 x 25 cm), complete.

Binding signed Chambolle-Duru, full blue morocco, spine with five raised bands decorated with compartments and gilt rules, title and author in gilt, double frame of multiple gilt rules on the covers, double gilt rule on the headcaps and edges, inside covers bordered in morocco and decorated with six gilt rules, gilt edges over the untrimmed margins, original covers and spines preserved.

Illustrated with a portrait and 42 compositions by the painter and caricaturist Louis-Ernest Lesage (1847–1919), known as Sahib, engraved on wood by Prunaire.

Limited edition of 200 copies on large-format paper, reset in octavo; this is one of the 50 copies printed on Japan paper at the head of the edition (no. 27).

A unique copy, enhanced with a suite of all the illustrations (except for one vignette on p. 218) in the first state on fine paper, and 46 original ink drawings, signed by the artist either “Sahib” or “S”, and placed opposite the engraved plates; thus including all the illustrations, including those on the covers, except for the one on the spine and the vignette on p. 218.

Spine evenly darkened; otherwise a very fine copy, probably the finest in existence.

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