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(Société des Beaux Arts.) Gautier, Theophile. A Night of Cleopatra. Paris, n.d. [ca 1895]. Edition des Deux Mondes, 1/20 on Japon vellum, out-of-series copy. Lg 8vo, contemp full richly gilt paneled & foliate crushed blue morocco with gilt decorated orange, blue, purple & white morocco cover & spine onlays, richly gilt foliate turn-ins, gilt morocco doublures with hand-painted vellum oval onlay at front, silked endpapers, t.e.g, other edges rough trimmed, raised bands; a few small rubbed areas on top third of the cover fore-edges. Illus by Paul Avril, triple suite of engraved plates: plain, color & India proof. Bookplate of Alice Maude Howes. Bright, sound & attractive.