Lot n° 637
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UZANNE (Octave). - Lot 637
UZANNE (Octave).
Feminies. Eight unpublished chapters devoted to Woman, Love, Beauty by Gyp, Abel Hermant, Henri Lavedan, Marcel Schwob & Octave Uzanne.
Paris : for the "Contemporary Bibliophiles", Académie des beaux livres, 1896. - Large in-8, 260 x 164 : title, (2 ff.), IV, 205 pp., (1 f.), 8 plates, illustrated cover. Dark green morocco, gilt and mosaic floral frame on the boards, spine decorated with mosaic flowers, dark green morocco frame inside, decorated with gilt fillets and foliage motifs, blue brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (René Kieffer).
First edition published by Octave Uzanne for the Bibliophiles contemporains.
This book originates from the 8 frontispieces that Félicien Rops executed from 1872 to 1876 for a collection of watercolours by M. Noilly entitled : Cent croquis pour réjouir les honnêtes gens. The 8 texts that make up this work were thus written with the intention of illustrating "these various Ropsian theses of Woman and Love" (page II).
The edition includes a typical Art Nouveau colour cover by Georges de Feure (1868-1943), a title designed by Krutké and engraved by Émile Gaujean (1850-1900), floral frames on each page and vignettes by Léon Rudnicki (1873-1958), a full-page black composition by Gaston Noury (1865-1936), and the 8 out-of-text colour compositions by Félicien Rops (1833-1898).
The drawings by Rops "were engraved with helio, then taken up with drypoint, bitten with etching, printed in black and finally retouched, retouched again according to the requirements of the polychrome intaglio print, known as à la poupée" (page II). The engravings were executed by Hellé, Fornet and Massé.
Edition at 183 numbered copies on japon. This one was specially printed for the famous jeweller Alfred Cartier (1841-1925). It is enriched with a suite in black with remarks of the 8 compositions after Félicien Rops.
Very nice copy in a mosaic binding by René Kieffer.
Spine faded.
Provenance : Alfred Cartier.
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