[Beautifully bound by René Kieffer] Prosper Mérimée. Colomba.

Soixante-trois compositions originales de Daniel Vierge gravées sur bois par Noël et Paillard. Préface de Maurice Tourneux. Paris, L. Conquet/ L. Carteret et Cie, Successeurs, 1904, printed in 300 numbered copies (200), (4),VIII,241 p., 63 woodcut illustrations, luxuriously bound by René Kieffer in brown morocco with on the gilt front and back boards in green and various shades of brown leather inlaid flowers, raised bands, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, bound with original wrapper, 4to (some rubbing).

Uncut copy, one of 200 copies on "Vélin Marais". René Kieffer signed the binding in the lower edge of the inside of the inside of the front board, but also with a label on the free endpaper. On him, see: https://tinyurl.com/lt9s8gw.