LYNCH (Albert) & BALZAC (Honoré de). Le père Goriot scèn - Lot 147

LYNCH (Albert) & BALZAC (Honoré de). Le père Goriot scènes de la vie parisienne. Paris, Quantin, 1885. Large in-4, brown morocco, mosaic ribbed spine decorated with gilded fillets, quintuple gilded fillet and morocco band framing the covers, double gilded fillet on the edges, sextuple gilded fillet on the inside, gilded covers, slipcase (Blanchetière). Limited edition of 100 copies on Japon reprinted in in-4 format, containing 2 states (avant la lettre and état terminé) of all 10 hors-texte illustrations by Lynch etched by E. Abot on Japon and on vellum. Bound at the end of the volume, 2 additional states of pure etching on japon (9 plates) and on vellum (10 plates with some marginal foxing). (Monod 882 - who reports no copy of this type.)A very fine copy in contemporary mosaic morocco.