Author: DOUCET (Jerome), editor:
Title: Anacreon. (Introduction et Pieces Choisies) Illustre de hit compositions de Louis-Edouard Fournier eaxu-fortes de Pennequin.
Description: Paris Librairie des Amateurs a Ferround, Librair-Editeur..., 1903 Small folio, 250 x 165 mms., pp. [vii], i - vii [viii blank], 28 [29 Tab le, 30 blank, 31 colophon, 32 blank], title-page in red and black, with small engraved vignette by Pennequin, 8 slightly erotic engraved head-pieces (by Pennequine after Louis-Edouard Fournier), attractively bound in full art noveau style green morocco, gilt image on each cover, gilt bands across spine and covers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. A fine copy, with the very small library stamp of the Selbourne Library on the lower margin of two leaves. Printed in a limited edition of 225 copies, of which this is no. 94. Jerome Doucet (1865 - 1957) was an active writer, collector, journalist, and bibliophile, and this is a very good example of his taste for fine publishing.

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