127 - DEMAISON (André) – JOUVE (Paul).
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Estimate €1,000 - €1,500

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DEMAISON (André) – JOUVE (Paul). The Book of Beasts Known as Wild. Paris, Lausanne: Les Frères Gonin, 1934. — Folio, 449 x 325: (3 leaves, the first two blank), 122 pp., (4 leaves, the last two blank), illustrated cover. Loose sheets, in the publisher’s folder and slipcase. A very rare new edition, printed in a run of only 50 copies on Rives vellum paper, revised and corrected by the author. This edition is particularly sought-after due to the illustrations by Paul JOUVE (1878–1973), comprising 44 compositions engraved on wood and stone by the artist in collaboration with Gaston Prost, including one on the cover, 5 initials and 37 full-page illustrations. Each copy bears the handwritten signatures of the author and the artist in the colophon, and that of the publisher on the half-title page. This copy is numbered 5. The copy is in very good condition. There are simply some fingerprints in the margin of page 102.

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127 - DEMAISON (André) – JOUVE (Paul). See original version (French)

127 - DEMAISON (André) – JOUVE (Paul).
See original version (French)