Chopin ou le Poete
( Frederic CHOPIN ) POURTALES, G. de
Illustre de nombreuses photographies d'apres les documents de l'epoque.
THE MAXWELL-SCOTT COPY IN QUARTER MOROCCO
Published: Librairie Gallimard Paris, 1929.
Stock code: 7997
Price: £210.00
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with half-title ('La Vie de Chopin'), with 42 fine plates (the majority portraits) on 39, one leaf (pp.
137-138) with small marginal repair (not affecting text); handsomely bound in contemporary marbled boards, green morocco back with five raised bands, second and fifth compartments lettered in gilt, gilt top uncut, marbled endpapers, sewn silk head- and tail-bands, silk marker, original pictorial wrappers in red and black preserved, backstrip lightly scuffed on lower panel, corners lightly chafed else a splendid, near fine copy in most attractive period binding. EDITION LIMITED TO AN UNSPECIFIED TOTAL OF INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON ALFA (THIS COPY No. 139). Published as no. 5 in Gallimard's famous series 'Galerie Pittoresque'. THE MAXWELL-SCOTT COPY WITH THE ORNATE, ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF MARIE LOUISE, LADY MAXWELL-SCOTT, ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN AND HER SMALLER CASTELLO DI ORVINIO BOOK-LABEL ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.