La Maitresse Servante French Novel 1922 Tharaud Limited Ed. #319 leather book
(Old Books, 20th Century Books, Leather Books, French Books, Literature, Novels, Jerome Tharaud, Jean Tharaud).La Maitresse Servante, by Jerome & Jean Tharaud.Published 1922, Paris by G. Cres & Co.218 pages. Text in French. Woodcut frontis by Paul Baudier,other wood designs by Pidoll.Limited Ed., example #319 of 1650.Attractive antiquarian 1/2 leather binding, raised bands, gilt title lettering, marbled covers & end papers, top edge gilt.Book is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time. Binding gently age worn but still appealing, leather and joints slightly rubbed but still supple, spine very gently uniformly sunned, remains overall clean and very attractive as an object.Text block paper is gently age toned as typical, internally book remains mostly clean, tight and sound. A book which has been taken care of but may/ does not look like new.Still attractive on the shelf. Book displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in rather nice antiquarian conditi