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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. [Limitation Statement]: "This Edition, consisting of Two Hundred and Fifty Copies on Large Paper, was printed in the month of October 1892. This Copy is No. 18 John Wilson & Son." [pencil inscription]: "Set of original proof etchings by Felix Buhot inserted". With an engraved calling card, with an inscription by Alphonse Daudet, pasted to the front blank flyleaf: [engraved]: Alphonse Daudet 31, Rue de Bellechasse [inscription]: "Tres touche et flatte de l'aimable invitation, regrette qu'un engagement anterieur pour le 8 Mai l'ait mis dans l'impossibilite d'accepter. Paris, 2e Avril 1895". Size of the binding: 6 3/4 in. x 9 3/4 in. x 1 3/8 in. (thick), engraved card pasted in; original white cloth with stamped design in gold and silver, by George Wharton Edwards, mounted and bound in (with the cloth from the spine and back cover bound in at the end); half-title; engraved, mounted, proof portrait of Daudet with printed tissue guard; smaller, mounted, proof portrait of Daudet (Martinez); Felix Buhot etching proof: Lettres de mon moulin; title-page printed in red and black; contents; list of Lemaire illustrations. [1]-263 pp., illustrated with 10 full-page color plates by Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928), each on a gilt-bordered sheet with a title-printed tissue guard, and with decorative head-pieces by George Wharton Edwards (1859-1950); this copy is extra-illustrated with 5 Felix Buhot (1847-98), proof etchings (he illustrated a French edition of Daudet's "Lettres de mon moulin", in 1882). Bound in full, olive green morocco leather with inlays. The spine features five raised bands with gilt-lettered titling, and gilt floral and insect forms, with rose and other flowers in inlaid red, violet & white leather, in compartments; the front and back covers show an inlaid form of the Mill of purple, black & red inlaid leather, with an inlaid brown leather border, and a richly gilt design of the rose & other flowers in red and white inlays, with a smaller flower form in dark blue inlays, gilt insects, etc., gilt lines on the cover edges, with maroon leather doublures on the inner covers, with an inlaid design of a lily-of-the-valley flower and leaves in dark and lighter green, and white leathers with gilt lines, and binder's stamp gilt in the lower margin of the front doublure: Pomey. Top-edge gilt, with sewn, double headbands, red, green & gold silk bookmarker ribbon bound in; white silk endpapers to face the doublures, with a design of three embroidered roses in light and darker pink, and leaves and stems in green silk, and color-design printed flyleaves with images of the Mill, Church, houses, etc. that are featured in the book. In a blue & gray marbled paper-covered slipcase, with brown morocco edging, and suede lining. As usual with green morocco, the binding that has been exposed has faded to a mellow brown. The spine shows light fading of the leather; some light wear, rubbing to the edging of the slipcase. The 1893 Dodd, Mead edition of Daudet's "Letters from my Mill", which has been "extra-illustrated" with the Buhot etchings, Daudet calling card, and luxuriously bound by Pomey, with the original binding cloth from the 1893 book, preserved in this copy. Text is in English. Weight: 3 1/2 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.