*SAUVAGE (Sylvain). - Lot 266

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*SAUVAGE (Sylvain). - Lot 266
*SAUVAGE (Sylvain). Voyage de Chapelle & de Bachaumont followed by the voyage of Languedoc and Provence by Lefranc de Pompignan with a preface by Mr. Édouard Aude. Marseille : Bibliophiles de Provence, 1933. - In-12, 183 x 101 : (7 ff. 3 first blanks), VIII pp., (1 f.), 132 pp. 8 ff. two last blanks), illustrated cover. Beige box, wide horizontal grey box bands on the top and bottom of the boards, continuous on the spine, split in the center on the boards and including 5 black fillets, smooth spine, linings with the same decoration as on the boards but inverted, in grey box with beige box bands, gilt edges, cover and spine preserved, beige and grey box spine folder with overlapping beige box bands, slipcase (Y.M.O.) Edition of 150 numbered copies on Hollande paper, illustrated with 31 woodcut compositions by Sylvain SAUVAGE, including one on the cover, one on the title, 26 in the text and 3 full page including the frontispiece. The engravings have been colored by Vairel. One of the 100 copies reserved for the regular members of the society, specially printed for Henri Reynaud. A very nice copy in an Art Deco binding signed by Y.M.O., enriched with two original signed drawings by Sauvage, serving as endpapers, and, in a separate box, two original sketches by the artist, 5 other original signed drawings in color, all of which served as studies for the illustration of the book, as well as one of the 5 suites in black on japon, one of the 5 suites in color on the same paper, and the menu of the dinner given on March 3, 1934 for the release of the book, illustrated with an unpublished composition in color by Sauvage. The suites include 32 subjects, that is to say the 31 of the book plus the menu. Spine of the folders and binding browned.
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