Baigneuses, Signed (4 results)

Un album in-folio, couverture souple éditeur, avec un 1er plat illustré en couleurs signz REUTLINGER(Deux baigneuses au milieu des vagues tentant de monter dans une barque avec l'aide d'un baigneur.). Cet album s'ouvre sur une Préface signée Pierre de Lano, où celui-ci raconte comment l'idée de ce type de publication lui est venue. Il dit que cet album va présenter, pour la première fois en Librairie, un essai d'illustration complète par la photographie. Il ajoute que, lui et son photographe REUTLINGER, seront fiers devant leurs futurs imitateurs d'avoir été les "inspirateurs, les promoteurs d'un art nouveau répondant, plus que les procédés d'illustrations employés jusqu'à présent, à l'esthétique, aux besoins, à la satisfaction du public". Le fait d'être imités ne va pas empêcher pendant un certain temps le tandem ROTLINGER/De LANO de poursuivre la production de leurs albums à base de photos. Ils ont évidemment choisi pour sujet de leur premier numéro un thème fort attractif (.) celui des baigneuses, thème qui sera approfondi dans l'album suivant. Le verso du 2ème plat présente un "Index des accessoires ayant servi à la publication de cet album".TRES BON ETAT. dabva pour DE LAO va continuer mais qu'ils.

Maillol (illustrator). A rare portfolio of TEN ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE LOOSE FOLIO WOODCUTS DEPICTING NUDE BATHERS BY GASPARD MAILLOL (nephew of Aristide), each signed and justified 6/100, printed on extremely fine bluish laid Montval paper (a kind of paper invented by the artist, in collaboration with his uncle.) Three poems by Chabaneix, printed in letterpress, accompany the woodcuts. Edition limited to 100 sets, each signed by the artist underneath the limitation statement / colophon (which is adorned with an eleventh original woodcut.) Printed by Raphaël Maillol (son of Gaspard). Typography by Jhane Maillol (wife of Gaspard.) Folio. Loose as issued in original wraps. Wraps a bit soiled, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Complete sets are very rare.

One of 204 copies bound in quarter natural vellum and Compton marbled paper, from a total edition of 240 copies. Printed on specially made Zerkall paper, dampened before use, using 16 point Centaur and Arrighi type cast by Peter J Sanderson at Whittington Court. Folio, 14¾" x 10½", pp. [2] [1-6] 7-28 [2 with engravings title page and title of the first engraving respectively], [[50], with 25 engravings on recto of pages and titles on verso] [2] [colophon] [3]. Eight tipped in plates. The second of a series of Fleece Press books on the wood and copper engravings of John Buckland Wright. The others are:'Bathers & Dancers' (1993), 'Surreal Times' (2000), 'Endeavours & Experiments' (2004), and 'To Beauty' (2006). A book in Fine condition housed in a Fine cloth solander box. Six of the 240 copies, lettered A to F were not for sale, bound in full classic vellum and accompanied by a set of prints made on Japanese gampi vellum. Thirty of the 240 copies were bound in classic vellum and signed by Christopher Buckland Wright. All 240 copies were housed in solander boxes.

Limited edition out-of-series print, signed, titled, dated, and numbered (#III/XII) in pencil below image. Sheet, 12 3/4 x 18 inches; image, 6 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Created for the 1936 iteration of the Album of La Gravure Originale Belge, this is likely an out-of-series artist's proof: the stated edition for the album was 65, and Wright numbered those prints in Arabic numerals; this impression, however, is instead designated in Roman numerals, and in a much smaller edition of just 12 (this is #III). It appears, though, that the two IIs after the X in 12 were added later, which would correlate to the catalogue stipulation that 75 total prints were created, but indicates Wright may have produced two further, unlisted impressions of the work. The Engravings of John Buckland Wright, edited and with an introduction by Christopher Buckland Wright, Scolar Press, England 1990. L 119 Woodprint on japan vellum; image in black ink, with his in-print initials upper right corner; autograph text in bottom margin Sheet, 12 3/4 x 18 inches; image, 6 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches Limited edition out-of-series print, signed, titled, dated, and numbered (#III/XII) in pencil below image.