Fables by Florian Chopard (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Chopard, G A (illustrator). Limited Edition. Both the slipcase & wrap are white, pebbled boards, lightly soiled from age & handling, slipcase has one darker corner (sun.damp.), opposite corner has a crack in surface. Wrap spine is soiled from handling, titling is sharp & clear. A sprinkling of foxing on folds of folios. Pages are bright & clean throughout. All pages present, including additional drawings. Signed by both artist & publisher.

Condition: Very Good binding. Folio. 155, [1 (blank)] pp. Limited Edition, number 4 of 115 copies, signed by Chopard on the limitation page. Unbound and printed on single folios, all laid into printed wrapper with additional blank folios at front and rear of the book. This is housed in a parchment-backed chemise titled in red with a white, imitation levant-grained cloth, which is in turn enclosed in a slipcase of the same cloth and trimmed in parchmentquite a package! 12 full-page lithographs in addition to numerous in-text lithographs. The blank folios are toned from the wrapper; wrapper has a closed tear at the top of the front joint; parchment spine of the chemise is somewhat soiled; slipcase is soiled with joints that are quite weaktwo splits have been mended, but remain tender. A wonderful edition by the Gonin brothers of the 18th century French poet's fables, beautifully illustrated by Gaston Albert Chopard.

330 x 255 mm, (2) ff. blancs, 152-(4) pp. (dont page de titre), (2) ff. blancs, dessins n/b in-texte et lithographies n/b en pleine en feuilles sous chemise, couvertures rempliées, emboîtage (chemise demi- vélin et étui), décharges sur premier et dernier feuillet blanc, rousseurs aux bords extérieurs ce ces mêmes feuillets, par ailleurs 2 piqûres de rousseurs, quatrième de couverture détachée, défauts à l'étui, tirage à 115 exemplaires numérotés et signés. Bel exemplaire. "Cette édition des Fables de J. P. Florian est l'oeuvre des Frères Gonin/les lithographies originales du peintre G. Chopard ont été tirées par E. Desjobert. La typographie est de Philippe Gonin qui en a achevé l'impression sur ses presses le premier jour du printemps 1937, dans son atelier, 15, rue de Lille à Paris.".

With 12 orig. full-page lithographs and 20 orig. lithographed vignettes in the text by Gaston Chopard. 152, (4) pp. Royal 4to. Loose quires as issued in orig. printed wrappers and half vellum chemise with title on spine. Untrimmed. In orig. cardboard slipcase. One of 115 numbered copies on Gaspard Maillol paper, signed by the publisher and the artist. Typography, book design and printing of the text by Philipp Gonin on his own press at 15, rue de Lille, Paris. The lithographs were printed by E. Desjobert, the stones destroyed after printing. Complete edition of all 110 fables by Florian. In the present work, one of the really rare ones of the Gonin press, the French artist Gaston Chopard (18831942) offers proof of his genius as a painter of animals. Bodemann 437.1; Carteret IV, 163 ("édition recherchée"); Monod 4759. Not in Fabula docet. Some foxing to untrimmed margins, otherwise fine.

34,5x26,7 cm. 2 f., 152 p., (3) p. Avec de nombreuses lithographies originales en noir. En feuilles, sous jaquette rempliée, chemise demi parchemin, emboîtage. 1/115 exemplaires numérotés est signés. - Les pierres lithographies ont été détruites après tirage. - Bel exemplaire. Sprache: französisch.