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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A lovely creation, with 28 photographs of fin-de-siecle celebrities with facsimile inscriptions and autographs, enhanced by Art Nouveau decoration by J-A Habert-Dys, Manuel Orazi and Alexis Fraikin. Biographical text by Paul Acker. Fourteen of the personages are also represented by chromolithograph caricatures after Leonetto Cappiello. Other portrait illustrations by Hermann Vogel. Please see image for list of celebrities covered. The decorated veneered wood cover has an inset portrait medallion of Sarah Bernhardt after Mucha. Decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In fine condition, covers fresh and unfaded, no foxing, marks or inscriptions internally.

Condition: Very Good. Vogel, Albert-Dys, Orazi & Fraikin (illustrator). First Edition. Cellulose inset cover medallion of Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine (after Mucha) enveloped by poppies on wood-veneered boards. Twenty-eight fin-de-siecle celebrities, each in photograph (by Nadar, Boyer, et al.) surrounded by colored art nouveau motifs (by Habert-Dys, Orazi and Fraikin) and facsimiles of autographed script. Included are Victorien Sardou, Sarah Bernhardt, François Coppée, Mme Edmond Adam, Anatole France, Mme la Duchesse D'Uzès, Jules Lemaître, Mme Réjane, Jules Claretie, Mme Segond-Weber, Jean Richepin, Marthe Brandès, Coquelin aîné, Jeanne Granier, Jules Massenet, Aïno Ackté, Mounet-Sully, Jane Hading, J-L.Gérôme, Jane Hatto, Antonin Mercié, Marie Delna, Luc-Olivier Merson, Sibyl-Sanderson, F.-A. Bartholdi, Carrère-Xanrof, Alfred Capus & Ranavalo Manjaka III (the ex-queen of Madagascar). Also contains fourteen stunning hors-texte chromolithographed Leonetto Cappiello caricatures of Sarah Bernhardt, Francois Coppee, Jules Lemaitre, Madame Rejane, Jules Claretie et al. Wear to fore edge corners.; 265 x 330 mm; Additional images and further information provided upon request. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.