[LINDSAY, Lionel]. MÉRIMÉE, Prosper. Carmen. With illustrations done in the summer of MDCCCCII by L

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[LINDSAY, Lionel]. MÉRIMÉE, Prosper. Carmen. With illustrations done in the summer of MDCCCCII by Lionel Lindsay. [Sydney], Southern Cross Books, 1984. Quarto, with 2 coloured plates, numerous illustrations and with one of the original drawings by Lindsay tipped-in, as issued; original gilt-decorated morocco in pictorial dustjacket. The first publication of Lindsay’s drawings, with Richard Griffin’s translation of the text. Edition limited to 250 copies, of which this one of 10, signed and numbered by Peter Lindsay, with a drawing.