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[MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS].
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227
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[MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS].
See original version (French)
Estimate €250 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS].
LOT.
- BRIANCHON. HERON DE VILLEFOSSE,.
Through our vineyards. Illustrations by Brianchon.
Paris, Bernard Klein, 1952.
Folio, 56 pp., loose sheets in a cover illustrated with an etching, half-vellum slipcase with gilt title and case, from the publisher (sporadic foxing, slightly more pronounced on some plates in the series). First edition. Illustrated with an etching on the cover and 9 original colour etchings. Limited edition, one of 50 on Arches paper, no. 62, including an additional original etching and the suite in black on China paper.
-LORANT-HEILBRONN. DOUCET.
Princesses of Jade and of Yesteryear.
Paris, Le Livre et l’Estampe, 1903. In-4, (33) ff. (including frontispiece, title page, colophon, table of contents, 3 illustrations not part of the text, 1 engraved title page for each tale). Brown half-maroquin with corner pieces, smooth spine with a mosaic-style orientalist decoration in gold, date at the tail, gold fillet on the covers, untrimmed, gilt head, original cover preserved.
Fine binding by R. Affolter. First edition. Limited edition, one of 300 on Arches paper in this format (no. 306). A collection of 3 tales, numerous vignettes and 3 full-page lithographs based on watercolours by Lorant-Heilbronn. The illustrations are printed in colour according to the country of the tales: red chalk for Japan, pale green for Egypt and blue for India (spines, headbands and corners slightly rubbed, slight white marks on the binding but a good copy).
-GENTY, BERNARD (Tristan).
*Le Cercle Enchanté. Cercle de la vie du boxeur*.
Paris, Le Goupy, 1924. Unpaginated in-4, (28) leaves including 12 plates, publisher’s paperback (cover faded, upper spine slightly split, crazing on the spine). First edition. 12 colour plates by Charles Genty on the theme of boxing. Printed in a run of 976 copies; one of the 925 on vellum (no. 166).
-DEMAISON, André. GUYOT.
Le Livre des Bêtes. Paris, La Revue française, Alexis Redier, copy on vellum.
In-4. Illustrated with 11 etchings by Charles Guyot. Limited, numbered edition. A few scuffs but a good copy.
-VIVANT DENON. LEROY.
Point de lendemain. Illustrated tale.
Paris, La Tradition, 1944. Large in-8 in loose sheets, 20 colour etchings. Printed cover, bound in a slipcase and case. Limited edition on Arches laid paper (wear to the cardboard slipcase but a good copy). Colour illustrations. One of 100 copies with a black-and-white supplement containing notes, in black, no. 52.
-BOURET.
Eulogy for Louis NEILLOT.
Paris, Manuel Bruker, 1962. Small folio. Unpaginated. Paperback with the publisher’s filled-in cover. Frontispiece and 7 black-and-white engravings. Limited, numbered edition (spine and covers slightly faded but a good copy).
-BEAUREPAIRE. SHAKESPEARE.
The Tempest.
Paris, Alcools, 1946. 154 pp., (3) ff. (including 2 blank pages), 10 plates (including frontispiece), loose sheets in the publisher’s folder, with a green leather-effect cardboard folder and slipcase (stain on the slipcase). Illustrated with 11 copperplate engravings by Beaurepaire (one cover vignette, one frontispiece and 10 plates). Limited edition, one of 140 printed in Auvergne in the ‘forme’ format, no. 47.
-LAFNET.
Les Quatrains du quatrain.
Paris, Georges Sauvaget, 1927.
In-4, 77-(2) pp. (including 9 plates), loose sheets, in the publisher’s folder, marbled slipcase (slipcase edge slightly split, very slight foxing, mainly marginal). First edition. 9 etchings by Lafnet, printed by Maître Delâtre in Montmartre (including a frontispiece and a colophon). Limited edition of 400 copies, one of the 50 H.C. copies reserved for members of the Dîner du Quatrain, no. 5. Hand-numbered and signed by the publisher. Enriched with a separately printed plate (a tribute from the publisher bearing his signature).
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