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COPY NUMBER 1. A charming illustrated edition, with dozens of wood-engravings by Huyot after Piguet, LIMITED TO ONLY 115 COPIES, ALL PRINTED ON FINE CHINESE PAPER WITH AN EXTRA SUITE OF THE WOOD-ENGRAVINGS PRINTED WITHOUT TEXT. This is COPY NUMBER 1, printed for About's close friend "Mme Edmond Adam", i.e., Juliette Lambert (1836-1936), noted writer, republican, and widow of prominent French politician Edmond Adam (1816-1877). She was an extremely accomplished and interesting woman, and among the regulars at her salon were Gambetta, Thiers, George Sand, Hanotaux, Alphonse and Julia Daudet, Hetzel, Bonnat, Sully-Prudhomme, Georges Clemenceau, Flaubert, Maupassant, Hugo, Turgenev, and About himself. 8vo. Original wraps. Light wear to extremities of wraps, else FINE AND BRIGHT, a pristine copy.