CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING

CATHERINE DE MEDICIS BY HENRI BOUCHOT 1899 DELUXE FINE BINDING

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[BOUCHOT, HENRI]. Catherine de Medicis. Paris: Goupil & Co., 1899.

First edition. Limited edition no. 66 - stated on limitation page. Hardcover. Leather-bound. Folio (360 x 280 x 60 mm.), pp. 181 + plates with captioned tissue-guards outside the pagination. Text in French. Printed on quality hand-made paper. Bound in stunning full crushed morocco and stamped in gilt on front turn-in 'Bound for William Brown, Edinburgh'. Spine compartments with gilt ruling and tooling, the covers with gilt panels and corner tools incorporating Catherine's cipher device topped with a crown, Royal crest gilt stamped to centre of both boards, single fillet edge-roll, top edge gilt, other page edges uneven, gilt ruled and tooled turn-ins, plain endpapers. Half-title page present, limitation page to verso printed in red and black. Title-page printed in red and black with printers device. Photogravure portrait frontispiece in colours with decorative gilt "frame" to the tissue-guard, and 40 other photogravures printed en grisaille, sepia and sanguine, some colour, all with tissue-guards lettered in red, 8 photogravure head- and tailpieces, facsimile letter printed on a tissue-guard in red. Printing and engraving by Manzi, Joyant & Co. at Asnieres-sur-Seine. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure the hinges perfectly intact and covers beautifully preserved with a couple of minor bumps or abrasions. Contents fine and without previous ownership markings. An exquisite example.

Notes: First edition, one of 1,000 copies on handmade paper by Blanchet Frères et Kléber, this is number 66. One of Goupil's lavishly Romantic turn-of-the-century illustrated historical biographies, here presented in an appropriately handsome binding.