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772 - In the margin of Anatole France.
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Estimate €200 - €250
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In the margin of Anatole France. Suite of XXV coloured wood engravings by Sylvain Sauvage. Preface by Charles Maurras. In-4° (some slight discharges). - Suite of 25 original woodcuts with remarks, stencil-coloured under passe-partout, apart from a front and 2 in-text in colour, illustrating the various works of France located in "old Paris". Edition of 160 copies, including 10 collaborators' copies, one of 115 on special Arches vellum (no. 66 signed by the artist-publisher). Enriched with: a suite of 3 rejected plates printed at 55 copies (no. 7 initialled by the same), - an illustrated subscription receipt signed by the publisher for Monsieur Bock. - Prov. Maurice Bock (1883-1961), Belgian engineer, member of the Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique. - Joint, same format: Discourses prononcés dans la séance publique tenue par l'Académie française pour la réception de M. Paul Valéry, le jeudi 23 juin 1927. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1927. Br. in publisher's illustrated cover, in green half-rexine portfolio with flaps. A speech that has remained famous in the annals of the Académie, Valéry having achieved the feat of praising his predecessor Anatole France without once uttering his name. Illustrated with a heliogravure portrait of France (2 vols.)
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About the sale Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes
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Auction time 06/25/2026 at 1:00 PM
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