Contes pour Les Bibliophiles – Albert Robida and Octave Uzanne

Contes pour Les Bibliophiles. Text by Octave Uzanne, and illustrations by Albert Robida. Paris: Libraries-Imprimeries reunies [former Maison Quantin (Quantin House)], 1895.

Short stories for bibliophiles, with many illustrations in the text and outside the text. It imagines a future where books are not the same written text in physical form as has been known, authors become voiceover narrators, and books are made without paper but as recorded sound and moving visual displays.

French language. Size: 8×11 3/4 inch. Limited to one thousand copies. Lim. 888/1000. Recently sophisticated with professional conservation, including a new case created from Yatsuo paper, Japanese washi antique color, original cover mounted (laid) on top, Japanese Kozo fixes at torn pages, and the text block resewn. Now, sturdy and functional. Good Plus.