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267 - ROPS (Félicien), CHERET (Jules) – CHAMPSAUR (Félicien). The …
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ROPS (Félicien), CHERET (Jules) – CHAMPSAUR (Félicien). The Gypsies. A lyrical ballet in 4 acts and 9 scenes. Drawings by Jules Chéret, Louis Morin, Félicien Rops, Grévin, Van Beers, Willette, Detouche. An exceptional copy, enriched with a set of 11 lithographs by Jules Chéret, signed and annotated in Champsaur’s own hand. Paris, E. Dentu et Cie, 1887. One volume, In-8 (203 x 150 mm). Plum-coloured half-maroquin with period corners, spine with 5 raised bands, author, title and date in gold, floral motifs and plant motifs within gold-edged panels, double gold fillet on the covers, plum-coloured head, original illustrated cover preserved. Unpaginated [80 pages, 9 plates by Chéret + 2 for the covers, frontispiece by Rops]. Slight rubbing to the corners. First edition, extremely rare copy of the limited first edition of 25 copies on Japanese paper (no. 2). First print of the illustrations: frontispiece portrait of the author lithographed by Félicien Rops. Nine plates on Japanese paper and two lithographed cover illustrations by Jules Chéret. 50 in-text illustrations, some full-page, printed in red, mauve or black, by Jules Chéret, Detouche, Galice, Grévin, Louis Morin, Félicien Rops, Lunel, Ranft, Van Beers and Willette. Our copy is supplemented by: a set of 11 lithographs by Jules Chéret on heavy paper, captioned in black ink. a blank leaf serves as a handwritten title page by Félicien Champsaur with the additional note "written during the month of July 1886, at Saint-Jacut de la Mer (Brittany). Enriched with a few corrections in black ink to the dedication and on 2 folios of text. Provenance: lithographed bookplate by R. Chalmandrier, designed by Petier (?). A splendid copy.
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