[EXEMPLAIRE SUR CHINE] - COPPEE (François). Works - Poems 18 - Lot 169

[EXEMPLAIRE SUR CHINE] - COPPEE (François). Works - Poems 1864-1872. Paris, Ch. Unsinger for Editions Lemerre, 1880 [colophon], 1883 [cover]. In-4 bradel half blue morocco with corners, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover kept (binding signed Carayon). Etchings by E. Boilvin. Edition at 1100 copies, this one of the 50 HEAD copies on China, numbered and initialled by hand by the publisher, containing 2 states of the etchings, on China and on Japan. The copy also includes : 1 : the pure etchings on Japon - 2 : the pure etchings and the fore-letter in artist's proofs, with remarks, on Japon de cuve - 3 : the three proofs of the portrait of Coppée on Japon, Hollande, and Chine - 4 : a manuscript verse piece on the cover of the book. 4 : a piece of handwritten verse by the poet ("Ritournelle", poem in four quatrains). From the Victor Mercier library, with his illustrated bookplate in color, including the motto " librorum flos illibatus ". Small rubbing and spotting on the spine, otherwise a very nice copy. Expert : Jean-Louis Beauvais