5/22/2023 0 Comments Le Barbier de Séville ou La Précaution Inutile by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Be...Spine a bit faded, but does not distract interior is nice, with some aging to the edges and very light foxing. Binding is likely post World War II, but does not appear recent. Attractively bound in full blue calf over beveled boards, spine title and ruled in gilt with twin gilt fleur-de-lys, covers bordered with twin gilt rules and gilt floral devices at inner corners, front cover filled with a veritable deluge of fleur-de-lys in gilt, 239 in all (in 24 rows), rear cover features 49 gilt-tooled fleur-de-lys in a diamond design (7 x 7, on the diagonal), blue silk patterned endpapers, and ribbon marker. First edition, apparently unrecorded variant issue, or unrecorded early piracy, of this classic play (the basis of Gioachino Rossini's celebrated opera 'The Barber of Seville), in a custom binding.
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