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a yellow book with blue trim and a decorative design on the coveran open book with a picture of a woman on ita picture of a painting of a woman on a boatsomeone is drawing a picture of a woman in a hat in a booka book with a drawing in it on a tablesomeone is holding a book with a drawing of a group of peoplean open book with a drawing of a dog and a cat on ita hand that is holding an open book on a table
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399 - WILLETTE (Adolphe) & MONTORGUEIL (Georges).
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Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
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WILLETTE (Adolphe) & MONTORGUEIL (Georges). Paris dansant. Paris, Théophile Belin, 1898. Quarto, lemon-coloured morocco leather, spine with four raised bands decorated with the title in gold and three medallions in a mosaic of slate-blue and dark blue morocco leather, framed by a band of interlaced slate-blue and dark blue morocco leather with medallions at the corners, blind-stamped fillets on the edges, slate-blue morocco lining framed by a gilt fillet, mordor-coloured silk endpapers, gilt edges on endpapers, in a half-black morocco slipcase with flaps, ribbed spine, gilt title, and a case with flaps (Marius Michel). Illustrations by A. Willette, engraved in intaglio and coloured by Vigna-Vigneron: a title vignette, a frontispiece, 13 bister-coloured headpieces, 12 colour plates and 13 end-piece illustrations. A single edition of just 200 copies; copy no. 20 containing: - the 40 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS (graphite, wash, white gouache and pencil) used for all the illustrations, - the twelve colour plates in three states: final state in colour, black state prior to printing and hand-watercoloured state prior to printing - the frontispiece in four states (final colour state, two black pre-print states and a hand-watercoloured pre-print state) and its colour breakdown (on 5 plates at the end of the volume) - the notice sheet by the engravers Vigna-Vigneron paying tribute to the 18th-century master engraver Janinet. A superb copy, perfectly prepared by Marius Michel, of this exquisite volume so beautifully illustrated by Willette, emblematic of Belle Époque Paris and its popular balls, can-can dances, masked balls, musette dances, official balls, artists’ balls, its opera, and so on.
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Auction time 09/09/2026 at 1:00 PM
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