Gros & Delettrez
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LITERATURE, ARTS, POETRY: 19th and 20th Centuries.
See original version (French)
193
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LITERATURE, ARTS, POETRY: 19th and 20th Centuries.
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
LITERATURE, ARTS, POETRY: 19th and 20th Centuries.
LOT of 9 miscellaneous works. 19th–early 20th centuries.
Literature, caricatures, illustrated books....
-DAUMIER. PHILIPPON. Les Cent et un Robert Macaire. Paris, published by Aubert et Cie, 1839. 2 parts in 1 large quarto volume. Spine missing, some foxing. Titles and frontispieces for each volume.
-LAMARTINE. Graziella. Bossard, 1926; cover featuring portrait frontispiece engraved by Gandon; square 12mo, aubergine half-maroquin with corners; spine damaged on pure Lafuma no. 354.
-DINET, Etienne. Les Fléaux de la peinture. PARIS, REY, paperback, spine slightly detached, 68 pp. Sent by the author with the half-title ‘To my friend Francastel’.
Pierre Francastel (1900–1970), a distinguished French art historian and sociologist, a leading theorist who wrote numerous works on the image, plastic space and the sociology of art
-*Characters* by La Bruyère, followed by *Characters* by Theophrastus
Published by Firmin Didot Frères, printers to the Institute, Paris, 1845, in-1é, in contemporary blue half-calf, smooth spine with decoration slightly faded, frontispiece engraved by Hopwood. A few foxing spots on the first few folios.
-BARRES, Maurice. *The Enemy of the Laws*, Gallia collection, 12mo, contemporary half-basane, interior fresh
Paris: Georges Crès et Cie; London: Dent & Sons; lithographed frontispiece portrait by Crevaux.
-RICTUS. STEINLEN. *Soliloques du pauvre*. Rey, 1925. Square 8vo, paperback with illustrated flapped cover, but spine damaged and upper joint split; interior fresh but with small paper losses.
-SAMAIN. *Selected Works*. Preface by Francis Jammes. Reproduced frontispiece portrait by Carrière, with wide margins, published by Mercure de France on laid paper; limited edition of 1,045 copies, this one no. 679 on laid paper. Paperback with the publisher’s ‘vous grise’ imprint and flaps.
-DUFOURT, Jean. *Laurette, or the Loves of Lyon*. 8vo, paperback, numbered by Rives; illustrations and etchings; frontispiece printed in black on a tinted background. Interior fresh but spine missing.
-POE. *The Raven*. Paris, Pichon, 1930. Paperback, in-4 lo,g, cover no. 198 on white vellum, shaped to size. Limited edition
this copy no. 6
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