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85 - DINET (Étienne) - SLIMAN BEN IBRAHIM BAÂMER.
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DINET (Étienne) - SLIMAN BEN IBRAHIM BAÂMER. La Vie de Mohammed prophète d'Allah by E. Dinet and Sliman Ben Ibrahim. Paris: H. Piazza, [1918]. - In-4, 315 x 246: frontispiece, VIII pp, (1 f.), 177 pp, (1 blank f.), 46 plates, printed cover. Dark green half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (contemporary binding). First edition of "this admirable work, of a high religious and artistic character", dedicated "to the memory of the Muslims who died for France". It is illustrated with 35 out-of-text colour compositions by the master orientalist Étienne DINET (1861-1929), reproduced in register, and 12 very beautiful out-of-text colour illuminations by the Algerian miniaturist Mohammed RACIM (1896-1975). All these hors-texts are presented under a captioned serpente. Edition of 925 copies, this one of 800 on vellum (no. 659). A unique and exceptionally enriched copy, including: Inside the book: - A superb original signed gouache by Étienne Dinet, measuring 286 x 197 mm, depicting a man gored to a post, mitre-mounted at the head. This is the painting reproduced in the book El Fiafi Oua El Kifar ou le désert published in 1911. It depicts the character of Chikh Châïb, a fictional Moroccan traveller who is both a healer and a storyteller. - Breaking down the colours of an illustration. In a separate volume, uniformly bound: - A handwritten title in gold and red. - 2 handwritten pages for the first chapter, the first with a colour headband and the autograph note "Bon à tirer E. Dinet". - 52 proofs and bon à tirer of Dinet's plates, almost all annotated by the artist, several justified in his hand "Bon à tirer" (some with tracings). - An autograph manuscript by Étienne Dinet, 1 1/2 pages in-4, detailing his publishing project: "There should be two editions of this work: 1° A large deluxe edition containing all the plates attached, plus ten or eleven colour decorations by Herzig, reproductions of which have not yet been made. The plates will be framed in black and gold. All copies will be numbered. - The price can only be fixed once the exact costs of this edition for bibliophiles have been calculated. 2° A popular edition - priced at ten francs - to reach the widest possible audience. This edition will contain the same text, a map, a decoration and twelve coloured plates...". In a note on the side, he said: "The 25-franc half-luxury edition originally conceived will be abolished". This additional volume is headed by an autograph letter from the publisher Piazza to Miss F. Guérin. A very well preserved copy in contemporary bindings. Provenance : Mademoiselle F. Guérin, with dispatch from the publisher.
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