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241 - MAINDRON (Maurice) Saint-Cendre.
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Estimate €300 - €500

Description

MAINDRON (Maurice) *Saint-Cendre*. Illustrations by Guy Arnoux. Paris, Mornay, 1930. A square in-8 volume, in full red coarse-grained morocco, covers and spine decorated with a continuous pattern of gilt fillets and featuring a modern hinge, gilt head, covers and spine preserved (binding signed Lucie Edgar-Faure). Spine faded, upper joint partially cracked. Edition illustrated by Guy Arnoux with numerous colour compositions executed using stencils. A top-quality copy; one of three numbered copies on old Japanese paper, each containing one-third of Guy Arnoux’s original watercolours—14 in total in this volume; with a pencil inscription from the publisher: “in memory of a successful hunt in 1930. Best regards’. The book recounts the adventures of the Marquis de Saint-Cendre, left for dead in a ditch in the summer of 1569 at the height of the Wars of Religion; of his regaining of his fortune and of the wife who had betrayed him, now taking refuge in the impregnable citadel of La Haute-Ganne … The niece of Julien Cain, Director-General of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1930 to 1964, Lucie Faure (née Meyer) was an internationally renowned pre-war bookbinder. She took part in numerous exhibitions of decorative artists abroad and married Edgar Faure [a seasoned politician under the Fourth Republic, MP for the Doubs for over 30 years]. She was also a woman of letters [a detail omitted by Fléty].

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241 - MAINDRON (Maurice) *Saint-Cendre*. See original version (French)

241 - MAINDRON (Maurice) Saint-Cendre.
See original version (French)