[FRENCH LITERATURE]. The Bibliophilist's Library. [First Series]. Volumes I-X. -- [Second Series]. Volumes I-X. Philadelphia: George Barrie for Subscribers only, n.d. [ca 1900].

Together, 20 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black, etched frontispieces in 2 states, numerous etched plates, some with remarques, by Edmond Hedouin, Emile Boilvin, Leopold Flameng, Adolphe Lalauze and others after Emile Boilvin and Edouard de Beaumont. (Slight offsetting from a few plates.) 20th-century turquoise morocco, elaborate foliate cornerpieces with black morocco onlays surrounding central gilt lozenge gilt with black morocco onlays, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, top edges gilt, others uncut, wide turn-ins gilt, light gray calf doublures with central gilt lozenge with turquoise and blue morocco onlays (spines sunned, hinges reinforced, a few minor stains). Provenance: Walter T. Austin (original subscriber); gift inscriptions in blue ink on a few pages of vol. V.

LIMITED EDITIONS: first series: number 225 of 1,000 copies on Holland handmade paper, printed for Walter T. Austin; second series: number 209 of 1,000 copies on Japanese vellum paper, printed for Walter T. Austin. This edition of The Bibliophilist's Library contains 8 translated works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, and others, each accompanied by numerous etchings done by prominent French artists.

Property from the Dorros Family Collection

[FRENCH LITERATURE]. The Bibliophilist's Library. [First Series]. Volumes I-X. -- [Second Series]. Volumes I-X. Philadelphia: George Barrie for Subscribers only, n.d. [ca 1900].