ART NOUVEAU BINDING. -PRÉVOST (Antoine-François). Histoire d - Lot 124

ART NOUVEAU BINDING. -PRÉVOST (Antoine-François). Histoire du chevalier DesGrieux et de Manon Lescaut. Paris, Georges Crès etCie (collection "Les Maîtres du livre"), 1913. In-12 square, (4 of which the last is blank)-357-(3)pp. in fawn calf with hand-colored embossed decoration on spine and boards, decorated edges, inner gilt border, gilt edges, covers preserved (L.Dézé). Numbered copy on cream-colored Rives laid paper. Woodcut frontispiece by Pierre-Eugène Vibert. Rare polychrome binding in embossed leather, signed by Louis Dézé. Manon Lescaut is depicted three times: full-length on the spine, in bust on the first plate, and dying in the arms of Chevalier DesGrieux on the second plate.