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Maître Paul PASTAUD

1399 - MAXENCE (Edgard) & DOUCET (Jérôme). Verrières. Illustrations…
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Estimate €60 - €100
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MAXENCE (Edgard) & DOUCET (Jérôme). Verrières. Illustrations by Edgard Maxence. Decorative elements by Paul de Pidoll. Paris, published at the author’s expense, 1929. Quarto, paperback, with a printed, filled-in cover extending to all margins, under a second printed, filled-in cover. The illustrations comprise 8 woodcuts within the text (including the title vignette), 8 full-page stencil-enhanced stained-glass designs, and 8 etched plates outside the text, including a portrait of the artist, the Symbolist painter from Nantes, Edgard Maxence (1871–1954). Printed in a run of 501 copies; no. 15 of 50 on Japanese paper, with a set of out-of-text plates printed ahead of the main text.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 3 of 4 – Nos. 1085 to 1642
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Auction time 08/21/2026 at 2:00 PM
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