[BARRET (Gaston)]. AUBRY (Octave). L'impératrice Eugénie. Pa - Lot 66

[BARRET (Gaston)]. AUBRY (Octave). L'impératrice Eugénie. Paris, la taille douce, 1946. In-4, illustrated edition after 14 watercolors by Gaston Barret etched by R. Sterckers. Limited edition of 225 numbered copies, this one no. 5, one of the top 14 on Annam de Rives, including an original signed watercolor, an inked and varnished plate, a suite des états, a suite en un ton and a suite en sanguine. Bound in full violet morocco, smooth spine decorated with cartouches with bee semis, eagle and monogram of Eugénie, green box covers and endpapers, double marbled paper endpapers, plate set on the flyleaf, signed S. David. In a slipcase lined with the same leather. (spine insolate)