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Lot no. 125
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BLETON (Auguste). Lyon Pittoresque. Illustrated with 5 etchings, 20 lithographs and 300 pen-and-ink drawings by Joannes Drevet. Lyon, Bernoux et Cumin, 1896. One large volume in-4, brown half-chagrin, 5-rib spine, gilt head, covers preserved. VIII, 322 pp, 8pp (subscription form as new). Small tear on first cover else a fine copy. One of 50 contributor's copies (n° XIX), printed for Joannès Drevet on tinted vellum, with his first bookplate "au hénin" [Vial n° 154] . This copy contains a very rare double suite, printed specially on chine contrecollé (the only suite so encountered) and not mentioned by Vial]. Joannès Drevet has also added 3 original drawings: "Le Clocher d'Ainay" [back cover, placed after the frontispiece; drawing taken over by the etching, see Vial 111]. "Saint-Georges, février 1895" [page VIII, after the preface, graphite drawing on green canson, not reproduced]. "Carmes Déchaussés", graphite drawing taken up by the etching, see Vial 108, page 304, after the etching of which a rare state printed in bistre]. As well as 8 original etchings added to the 5 in the book: 1/ page 18 "Aspects du quartier Grôlée en 1892" [Vial 95, 90 exempl.]. 2/ page 30 "Le Mont de Piété, effet de soir et de pluie" [Vial 61, 5 copies]. On japon with red stamp. 3/ page 64 "rue Mercière, n° 88" [Vial 92, 5 copies before the letter]. 4/ page 74 "Vieux puits, rue Mercière n° 14" [Vial 172, 20 copies]. 5/ page 106 "Pont du Change in 1880" [Vial 102, 90 copies]. 6/ page 142 "Rue " [unidentified]. 7/ page 278 "Escalier rue Saint-Jean [Vial 113]. 8/ page 306 "Église Saint-Paul" [Vial 93]. and late, in 1937 and folded in two [inserted p. 142], the "Plan géométral de la ville de Lyon en 1789 dressé d'après des documents de l'époque par E.P. Lapeyre [plan which was published in 1937, filled in at the end of the 1st volume of "Lyon n'est plus" by Edouard Herriot].
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