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GOURMONT Remy de: Le Songe d'une femme.
See original version (French)
182
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GOURMONT Remy de: Le Songe d'une femme.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
GOURMONT Remy de: Le Songe d'une femme. Camille Bloch Paris 1925. Beautiful edition illustrated with 28 original burins by Jean-Émile Laboureur, including a frontispiece, a title vignette and twenty-six compositions in the text. Edition at 430 copies on Arches. "This is a true masterpiece of typography and illustration, certainly one of the finest books of the 20th century [...]. M. Laboureur has composed here his most beautiful engravings. His art is made of extraordinary finesse. It is as if he barely touches his subjects [...]. He is a magician of burin engraving", wrote Max Molho in 1926. Paperback in-8, pink cover, spine faded. Edition of 430 copies on Arches vellum. Spine faded.
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