La Rotisserie de la Reine Pédauque

by Anatole France

illustrated by Louis Jou 

Edition Les Beaux Livres, in French.  Paris:  Chez Mornay, Libraire, 1920  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Half leatherbound in brown morocco with silvered marble boards, gilt title at spine.  
• Boards show some wear at the shoulders.  Corners are sharp.  
• Spine has gilt text with firm ends.
• Custom binding is strong.  Original buff wraps are bound in to the new boards.
• Marble end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear; plain feps show some scattered foxing.  
• Frontispiece, a portrait of the author, is present and has intact tissue guard, foxed.  See photos.
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some marginal toning, scattered foxing, some smudges.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have gilt along head, deckle fore and foot edges, with deckled edge foxed.  See photos. 
• PS2026.0610

314 pages. 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches

Illustrated edition, Les Beaux Livres collection, number five.  Edition limited to 1000 copies.  In French.  Original illustrated paper wrappers are preserved, bound into the custom leather binding.  Half brown morocco with silvered marble boards.  Richly illustrated with wood engravings.  Scattered foxing to the end papers, deckled edges, and some page margins, else unmarked and resembling a fine example of 17th-century book art.  Condition is overall Very Good.

A novel by Anatole France (1844-1924), the French poet, journalist, and novelist whose ironic, skeptical voice here ridicules the belief in the occult.  La Rotisserie de la Reine Pédauque was first published in 1893; when Mornay issued their edition in 1920, they turned to the artist Louis Jou (1881-1968) for the wood engraving illustrations.     

This volume was the fifth title produced in the collection Les Beaux Livres, published by Mornay in Paris.  As per the colophon, the edition was limited to 1000 copies made for sale, issued on a variety of different papers.  An additional 95 copies were hors commerce, and our copy is one of the 65 printed on Rives paper.  The reverse of the half-title states that this is copy #LVII, printed specially for Monsieur Odend'hal.  The Odend'hal was a French family, with numerous members active at the time of this book's production, including a French naval officer, merchants, and an explorer, plus one branch which had emigrated and established itself in Baltimore, Maryland.   

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