153 - ROY (Camille). Songs for Everyone.
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Estimate €600 - €800

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ROY (Camille). Songs for Everyone. Songs and Poems illustrated by his Friends. Lyon, A.-H. Stock, 1897. A large folio volume, full brown morocco, ribbed spine, red morocco title label, extensive mosaic and painted decoration on the front cover depicting a lyre player in front of a gilded musical stave, with mosaic notes; on the back cover, a large oval medallion, painted and inlaid, depicting a soldier against a landscape of ruins, framed by a double gilt border; gilt interior lace, brown moiré endpapers and half-leaves, all edges gilt. A burgundy morocco box with two brass clasps (binding signed Marius MAGNIN, 1918). 255 pp. An illustrated edition featuring 92 separate heliogravure plates, set in a serpentine layout, and several vignettes within the text, based on works by Adolphe Appian, Joanny Arlin, Charles Beauverie, Henri Bidauld, Louis Boulanger, Victor Ducrot, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Flandrin, Horace Fonville, Eugène Froment, Louis Jourdan, Sophie Olivier, Ernest Roman, Tony Tollet and Joseph Trévoux. Limited edition of 750 copies; this is no. 483, signed by Camille Roy, with an autographed dedication to François Borgey, dated December 1907. This copy is enhanced with two drawings by Girrane, which served as models for the book’s binding decoration, as well as an old photograph of the binding itself. Marius Magnin has also inserted a leaf bearing the inscription: ‘Mosaic binding produced for François Borgey, completed on 31 March 1918 by Marius MAGNIN’.

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153 - ROY (Camille). Songs for Everyone. See original version (French)

153 - ROY (Camille). Songs for Everyone.
See original version (French)