Language: French
Published by Francois Bernard, 1920
Seller: Black Gull Books (P.B.F.A.), St Leonard's on Sea, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Signed
US$ 139.01
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Signed with a drawing on half title page. Fly leaves show waging, but robust and intact. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage. Signed and dedicated.
Language: French
Published by Devambez, Paris, 1918
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Guy Arnoux (illustrator). Ed of 1000, Full color.
Color Plates (illustrator). Paris, France: Les Editions Pittoresques. Reading copy: spine chipped away, pages and gathers loose/No Dustjacket. 1929. 8vo., 180 pp. . Reading copy: spine chipped away, pages and gathers loose/No Dustjacket.
First edition. First edition. n.d. (ca. 1918). Huge folio (13 x 17 inches) suite of ten superbly colored full-page illustrations loose, as issued, and a full-color illustrated title-page by noted French illustrator Guy Arnoux. Original color pictorial folding covers with ribbon ties. Limited to 475 numbered copies (#218), printed on laid paper, watermarked. Each plate in very good condition, but contains remnants of plastic tape on verso of image not affecting images. Some minor marginal tearing of fragile paper. Binding spine sl. frayed and covers a little soiled. A remarkable survival. Printed on handmade paper watermarked, "Ingres, 1871." Exceedingly scarce and desirable graphic art by this exemplary French artist.