RICHEPIN (Jean). Les Débuts de César Borgia. The illustrations for this work were composed by Georges Rochegrosse and etched by Messrs. Paul Avril, F. Courboin, Fornet and Manesse. Paris, published for the Société des bibliophiles contemporains [imprimerie Quantin], 1890, in-8, [4] ff. n. ch. (faux-titre, title with orange portico frame, autographed preface), 83 pp, [2] ff. n. ch. with 13 vignettes after Rochegrosse's watercolors, in two states (in color in the text, in black etching before the letter out of the text), including one on the title leaf, navy morocco, ribbed spine decorated with cold caissons with cherry morocco mosaic, double mosaic fillet (cherry and fawn) on the boards, gilded edges, cherry morocco counterplates with triple fillet and gilded scrolls, fawn cloth lined flyleaves with cold semis, illustrated cover preserved, all in cardboard slipcase (Marius Michel). (Spine uniformly oiled and faded). Limited edition of 186 copies for members of the Société des bibliophiles contemporains. Numbered 46, this is the personal copy of industrialist René Descamps-Scrive (1853-1924), a demanding collector since the 1880s, and a favorite of Léon Conquet and later Léopold Carteret. Separate first edition of the very first text printed for the Société des bibliophiles contemporains, founded in 1889 by Octave Uzanne. A very fine copy.