MERIMEE, Prosper — CARMEN
New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-3/8" x 11") bound in bright and colorful hand-blocked gypsy silk cloth. Illustrated with 37 beautiful ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS in color drawn on the plates by Jean Charlot. Copy #1058 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Perhaps the most stunning and underrated of the early books from the press.. Jean Charlot.. Bookplate on front pastedown, slight foxing and faint tape stains to endpapers; spine a little sunned, as often the case. Very Good or better in a Very Good slipcase with minor splitting