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FINE SIGNED BINDING: Captain Gladstone (extra illustrated copy): Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules; Le Blant, Julien (illustrator) Le Chevalier des Touches. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886, limited edn. With a frontis plus seven plates by Le Blant. Plus an extra six plates by Felix Buhot (these are slightly smaller than the rest of the book). Bound in full dark red crushed morocco with elaborate gilt decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and silk doublures, signed CEG. Top edges gilt. Spine very slightly faded; a very small spot to centre of front cover (hardly visible); offsetting to endpapers; light spotting to a few pages; o/w VG+/fine