RENAN, Ernest. - Lot 157

RENAN, Ernest. Prayer on the Acropolis. Paris, Pelletan, 1899. 1 vol. in-4. Half vermilion red morocco with corners, gilt fillet on the boards, mosaic spine, gilt title, author and date, gilt head, covers and spine kept. DURVAND]. Compositions by H. Bellery-Desfontaines engraved by Eugène Froment. Copy enriched with a photographic portrait of the author by Pierre Petit and printed by Lemercier. Attached : CATULLE MENDÈS. Les Îles d'Amour, with six etchings and thirty-eight original drawings by G. Fraipont. Paris, Bibliothèque des deux mondes, L. Frinzine & Cie, 1886. 1 vol. in-4. Half copper cloth, spine gilt, author and title gilt. One of a thousand numbered on laid paper.