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Lot 249
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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[Taillandier, Yvon] Massenet, Jules. Herodiade
Paris: Au Menestrel, ca. 1884. Extra-illustrated copy, with approximately 160 color gouache illustrations by French artist Yvon Taillandier, signed by him on title-page. 4to. 355 pp. Three-quarter light green cloth over floral paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt with initials "A.M.", cocked, spine perished, boards starting, original spine laid-in, extremities rubbed.
Opera libretto for French composer Jules Massenet's Herodiade, with approximately 160 original hand-painted gouache illustrations by artist and critic Yvon Taillandier (1926-2018).
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