[ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER EDITIONS. - Lot 233

[ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER EDITIONS. SET of 7 titles in their polychrome and/or gilt hardcover bindings from the publisher. Including: -Joan of Arc; Large oblong quarto hardcover, illustrated by the publisher PLON (1896) -On Vacation. DAUZAT, A. Pleasures & Curiosities of the Mountains / LOUDEMER. Fishing & Hunting by the Sea. Paris, Hetzel Collection, 1909. In-8, illustrated green percaline binding from the period. -A Zigzag Journey. -From Land to Sea. -Robinson Crusoe. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of fine bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, was as much a part of Parisian artistic and literary circles as he was of the world of the decorative arts and their schools, thanks to his uncle, the architect and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.