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142 - FLORIAN. BARBOUTAU (Pierre). Fables.
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Estimate €300 - €500
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FLORIAN. BARBOUTAU (Pierre). Fables. Paris, Marpon & Flammarion, [1898]. 2 volumes in-8 (200x160mm), half midnight blue morocco, smooth spine with title in mosaic Japanese characters in red morocco, gilt headband, covers preserved, hardback slipcase (Bernasconi). 24pp. + 14 double-page prints; 24pp. + 14 double-page prints; vignettes in black in the text, illustrated covers in colour. Some spotting and foxing, covers soiled. A delightful Japanese venture by Flammarions, commissioned by publisher and art lover Pierre Barboutau, a specialist in Japan, who brought together three artists to produce the colour prints: Kano Tomonobu, Kadjita Hanko & Kubota Tosui. It follows on from La Fontaine's Fables (1894). While the meeting of two worlds that seem so far apart may come as a surprise - an eighteenth-century French fabulist illustrated by the prints of fin-de-siècle Japanese artists - it was the result of a dazzling intuition on the part of Barboutau, who understood the porosity of the two worlds in their relationship to nature, in their use of dramatic animals and concise texts (fables / haikus), and achieved the synthesis dreamed of by the Goncourt brothers and the Burty brothers: Japonism and the French 18th century. The edition was printed in Tokyo by the Shueisha company (200 deluxe copies on Hō-shō paper; here unjustified).
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About the sale Prestige sale - Antiquarian and collectible books
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Auction time 06/15/2026 at 2:00 PM
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