ADELINE (Jules). Les Sculptures grotesques et symboliques (R - Lot 537

ADELINE (Jules). Les Sculptures grotesques et symboliques (Rouen et Environs). Preface by Champfleury. One hundred vignettes and text with double etching frontispiece Rouen, E. Augé, 1878. Large in-8 red half-chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt title, covers preserved (post. binding). 2 etched frontispieces printed on Japon, illustrated title and 127 etched figures on 100 pp. A fine copy on large paper, from the deluxe large octavo edition limited to 220 numbered copies (no. 136 of 175 on tinted paper with the 2 etchings before the letter). (See correspondence between J. Adeline and Champfleury concerning this edition in J. Adeline, Quelques souvenirs de Champfleury, 1902, pp. 73 ff.) A few small brown spots. Bookplate G.-R. Piclin. Bookplate JM.