HUYSMANS (Jorris-Karl)

HUYSMANS (Jorris-Karl)

La Cathédrale. Paris, P.-V. Stock, 1898. Large in-12 bradel half-brown morocco, smooth spine decorated with gilt and cold-stamped fillets, gilt title, date on tail, gilt head, covers and spine preserved, untrimmed (Mertens rel.). First edition. Edition on large paper limited to 131 numbered copies; no. 68 of 100 on Hollande paper, made for this edition, with a watermark specially designed by Louis Chevalier (at the cathedral), with titles, ornate letters, culs-de-lampe etc. printed in red, an etching portrait of the author by Eugène DELATRE as frontispiece and a colored frontispiece by Pierre ROCHE, on eglomisé parchment. The subscriber's name has been scratched on the receipt and on the back cover. Spine insolate with a few rubs, rare foxing, otherwise a fine copy complete with frontispieces.