PRÉVOST (Antoine-François). Manon Lescaut and around. XIXe-X - Lot 152

PRÉVOST (Antoine-François). Manon Lescaut and around. XIXe-XXe siècles. Set of approx. 40 illustrated volumes; some defects and incompleteness. -Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier DesGrieux. ÀParis, chez Werdet, 1825. 2 volumes in-24, decorated half-chagrin with corners (binding circa 1860). Copper-engraved frontispieces and titles after Alexandre-Joseph Desenne. -Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier DesGrieux. Paris, Ernest Bourdin, [1839]. In-4, decorated half-maroquin with corners, gilt head, cover preserved (Stroobants). Woodcuts after Tony Johannot. Exemplaire avec couvertures blanches d'étrennes, et hors texte avant la lettre sur chine appliqué; enrichi des couvertures jaunes, et des hors texte après la lettre sur vélin de la seconde édition. Provenance: a member of the de Clermont-Tonnerre family. -Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier DesGrieux, ÀParis, [au faux-titre:] se vend à Paris, chez Alphonse Leclère, 1860. 2 volumes composed in small in-12 format and reprinted in large in-12 format, ornate half-maroquin with corners, gilt heads (binding circa 1900). Illustrated edition of the copper-engraved plates by Jacques-Joseph Coiny after Louis-Joseph Lefebvre. A copy on heavy vellum, with large margins, in a fine binding. -Manon Lescaut. Paris, chez D.Jouaust, 1867. In-8, half calf (binding circa 1900). Copy enriched with the suite of etchings engraved after drawings by Edmond Hédouin. -Manon Lescaut. Paris, A.Quantin, 1879. In-8, half-chagrin with corners (contemporary binding). Etched illustration by Adolphe Lalauze. Provenance: "HL" (gilded number on tail of spine). -Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier DesGrieux. Paris, Librairie artistique, H.Launette, 1885. Large in-4, half-chagrin with threaded corners, gilt head (antique binding). Copy on vellum. Preface by Guy de Maupassant. Etchings and woodcuts after Maurice Leloir. -Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier DesGrieux. Paris, C.Marpon et E.Flammarion, [circa 1890]. 2 vols. in-32, decorated half-maroquin (Flammarion Vaillant). Reproduction of the romantic illustration by Tony Johannot. -Histoire du chevalier DesGrieux et de Manon Lescaut. Paris, Helleu et Sergent, 1926. In-16, decorated morocco, gilt edges. Edition of 320 numbered copies, this one of 35 on japon with original drawing and suite. Two-tone lithographs by Charles Guérin. Copy with double suite in color decomposition. -The Story of Manon Lescaut and the chevalier DesGrieux. NewYork, The Heritage Press, 1935. In-4, leatherette bradel (publisher's binding). Illustrated by Pierre Brissaud. Enriched copy with an original drawing signed in color by Pierre Brissaud, with autograph signed letter from the artist to Max Brun. -Histoire du chevalier DesGrieux et de Manon Lescaut. Paris, LeVasseur etCie, 1941. In-4, leaves in wallet, all in publisher's parchment-backed chemise and cardboard slipcase. Edition of 475 copies, this one of 20 contributor's copies on Arches vellum à la forme. Color-enhanced drypoints by Paul-Émile Bécat. Enriched with a letter from the artist to painter Émile Beaume and a letter from Émile Beaume to Max Brun, both concerning the work. -Editions illustrated by Hans-Henning von Voigt dit Alastair (1928), Robert Bonfils (1928), Umberto Brunelleschi (1934), Félix Roy dit Sylvain Sauvage (1941, and, under his other pseudonym "Espérance", 1947), Maurice Leloir (1889 and 1890), Charles Martin (1934), André Marty (1941), Raoul Serres (1946, with autograph letter from the artist to Max Brun, and letter from painter Émile Beaume to Max Brun about the copy), Constantin Somoff (1927), etc. -Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier DesGrieux. Paris, Werdet et Lequienfils, 1827. In-8, half-chagrin with threaded corners (Koehler). Copper engravings. A copy enriched with numerous engravings. An early note gives details, and a note in Max Brun's hand indicates that the enrichment was made by a previous owner, the art historian Georges Duplessis (1834-1899), who was director of the Cabinet des estampes at the Bibliothèque nationale. -2suites of copper engravings from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Window-mounted plates on in-8 leaves bound in an in-8 volume of tobacco calf (19th-century binding). The first suite was engraved by Jacques Jean Pasquier for the 1753 Amsterdam edition. Provenance: Fernand Engerand (bookplate with his initials). -A copy of the reduction for piano and voice of Jules Massenet's opera Manon, enriched with an autograph letter signed by Jules Massenet (January 3, 1912).