Brthold Mahn Etc (1 results)

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. Original Art Works. A Suite Of Illustrations, Unbound, Ten Groups Of 13-20 Loose Lithographs Wrapped And Sealed In Glassine, Enclosed In A Slipcase. Printed In Color Or B/W, No Publisher Or Date Indicated Anywhere, Many Signed In The Plate By Early 20Th Century Illustrators, Fine Paper , 9" X 6 5/8". All Enclosed In A Simple Open Three-Panel Folder, Paper With Cloth Edges, With Morocco Label "Octave Mirbeau / Suite Des Hors-Textes", And In A Matching Cloth Slipcase With Gray Paper Sides And Cloth Edges. The Illustrators' Artistic Histories And Life Spans Indicate These Were Likely Done In 1920'S-1930'S For An Intended But Unpublished Limited Edition Of Octave Mirbeau's Works, Possibly For A Nascent Firm That Failed In The Early 1930'S. One Set By Edy Legrand Is Clearly For "The Torture Garden" By Mirbeau, The Other Sets For Nine Of His Other Books. Altogether, Two Sets By Legrand, One By Jean Launois (1898-1942), One By Berthold Mahn (1893-1975), Three Other Sets Signed But With Illegible Signature, Other Sets Not Signed.