La Chastelaine de Vergy. Miniatures and illuminations by Jea - Lot 104

La Chastelaine de Vergy. Miniatures and illuminations by Jean GRADASSI. Monaco, éditions d'Art Sefer, 1988. One volume. 27 by 37 cm. 142 pages. Full burgundy morocco 5-rib spine, with cold decoration on the nerves, and in gold, boards with a very fine cold frame with plant motifs, with an inlaid polychrome enameled copper plate on the 1st board. Gilded head, lace framing inside, crimson velvet endpaper. Continued in a crimson velvet folder, claret half-maroquin slipcase, 5 nerves, ornate, boards covered in claret moiré silk, interior in fleecy claret moiré silk. As new. Copy on Arches vellum. One of 80 copies with an original illustration, a color suite of hors-texte illustrations, and a red lacquer suite of the edition's in-text and hors-texte illustrations (N°19). With certificate. Last work illustrated by GRADASSI, and the publication was posthumous. With Joseph PARDO's erudition for the text. For collectors.