FLOWER IN A GOLDEN VASE — JIN PING MEI — VOLUME II — PLÉIADE - Lot 97

FLOWER IN A GOLDEN VASE — JIN PING MEI — VOLUME II — PLÉIADE, 1985 Flower in a Golden Vase (Jin Ping Mei cihua), Volume II. Translated, introduced, and annotated by André Lévy. Paris, Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1985. A substantial in-12 volume, in the publisher’s softcover binding of full brown leather, spine decorated with gold fillets. Protected by Rhodoid, with an illustrated dust jacket and the publisher’s cardboard slipcase. Printed on March 10, 1985, on Bible paper from Papeteries Braunstein, by the Mame printing house in Tours; bound in full leather gilded with 23-karat fine gold by Babouot in Lagny. ISBN 2-07-011088-5; edition no. 34,796, legal deposit April 1985. A beautiful copy, complete with all its presentation elements.