![67- [POLET DE FAVEAU (Théodore)]. Suarsuksiorpok, or The Woodcock Hunter. By Sylvain. Illustrated with sketches by Félicien Rops. Paris, Victor Lemasle, s.d. (1907), in-12, with illustrations in the text and 6 plates hors texte, including a frontispiece, green half-chagrin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets, cover and spine preserved (Ateliers Laurenchet).
Third edition (the first was published in 1862). One of the Lemasle copies bearing the correct address and date (Lemasle had offered for sale a number of copies counterfeiting the original, but the public had not been fooled).
Sylvain was the pseudonym of Théodore Polet de Faveaux (1801-1866), vice-president of the Namur court, whose only daughter, Charlotte, married Félicien Rops on June 28, 1857. Rops is the book's illustrator.
Thiébaud, 751-52.](https://cdn.drouot.com/d/lot/fullHD/916/141073/be4ba8346b4a99e1c42c8bf1954749c0)
67- [POLET DE FAVEAU (Théodore)]. Suarsuksiorpok, or The Woodcock Hunter. By Sylvain. Illustrated with sketches by Félicien Rops. Paris, Victor Lemasle, s.d. (1907), in-12, with illustrations in the text and 6 plates hors texte, including a frontispiece, green half-chagrin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets, cover and spine preserved (Ateliers Laurenchet). Third edition (the first was published in 1862). One of the Lemasle copies bearing the correct address and date (Lemasle had offered for sale a number of copies counterfeiting the original, but the public had not been fooled). Sylvain was the pseudonym of Théodore Polet de Faveaux (1801-1866), vice-president of the Namur court, whose only daughter, Charlotte, married Félicien Rops on June 28, 1857. Rops is the book's illustrator. Thiébaud, 751-52.
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67- [POLET DE FAVEAU (Théodore)]. Suarsuksiorpok, or The Woodcock Hunter. By Sylvain. Illustrated with sketches by Félicien Rops. Paris, Victor Lemasle, s.d. (1907), in-12, with illustrations in the text and 6 plates hors texte, including a frontispiece, green half-chagrin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets, cover and spine preserved (Ateliers Laurenchet).
Third edition (the first was published in 1862). One of the Lemasle copies bearing the correct address and date (Lemasle had offered for sale a number of copies counterfeiting the original, but the public had not been fooled).
Sylvain was the pseudonym of Théodore Polet de Faveaux (1801-1866), vice-president of the Namur court, whose only daughter, Charlotte, married Félicien Rops on June 28, 1857. Rops is the book's illustrator.
Thiébaud, 751-52.
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