Original Feuardent on French Jetons
Feuardent, F. COLLECTION FEUARDENT: JETONS ET MÉREAUX DEPUIS LOUIS IX JUSQU'À LA FIN DU CONSULAT DE BONAPARTE. Paris, 1904, 1907 & 1915. Three octavo text volumes and one quarto plate volume, complete. Text volumes in contemporary matching brown quarter calf with mottled sides; spines with five raised bands; tan and green spine labels, gilt; marbled endpapers; page edges speckled; original printed card covers bound in. Plate volume in later brown quarter morocco with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Near fine. A handsome and well-preserved set of the very scarce original edition of this classic work, which is still of considerable utility. Clain-Stefanelli 13819. Grierson 252. Ex 1985 Joint Kolbe/Spink New York Book Auction, lot 144.