Lot with 3 works: (1) Eugène Demolder. Le Royaume authentique du Grand saint Nicolas

Illustré d'une couverture, d'un frontispice, de 30 croquis de Félicien Rops et de 5 dessins hors texte d'Etienne Morannes. Paris, Mercure de France, n.d. (1896), (6),214,(2) p., illustrated as indicated by Rops, contemporary half vellum with title in pen on spine, top edge gilt, with the original cover by Rops bound along, 4to.

With on the free endpaper a signed dedication by Demolder to Alphonse Allais, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Allais. On reverse of the half title indication of 30 copies being printed on various kinds of special paper. We are not entirely sure, but this looks like one of only 10 copies on Japanese paper. (2) Victor Kinon. Chansons du Petit Pèlerin à Notre-Dame de Montaigu. Deuxième édition. Brussels, O. Schepens & Cie., 1898, 35,(1) p., printed in 256 numbered copies, original cover, small 4to (partly (shabbily) cut open, else very good). Of this edition only 6 numbered copies appeared on Japanese paper, this is an unnumbered copy on Japanese paper. And with (3) 1 more by Eugène Demolder printed in 500 numbered copies (total 3).