[Fine Binding | Painted Vellum] Les Cent Meilleurs Poemes E-List 30 and interlaced gilt tooling on

and interlaced gilt tooling on a stylized flower at corners

and gilt design of leaves and dots to remaining compartments

Title page and initials illumined by hand

Only two holdings noted in OCLC (at Dartmouth and Brown)

Title and author in gilt to spine

[Fine Binding | Painted Vellum] Les Cent Meilleurs Poemes E-List 30 and interlaced gilt tooling onAuguste Dorchain (ed.). Les Cent Meilleurs Pomes (Lyriques) de la Langue Franaise. Paris: A. Picard, 1914. 12mo. An anthology of French lyric verse, selected by Dorchain, issued with publishers catalogue at rear. Original front wrapper bound in. Bound in full vellum, the front cover with a hand painted blue frame enclosing a cartouche of a stylized flower in red, green, and gilt; small floral devices at the corners, with similar painted ornaments to