BARTE (Alexandre) - VERLAINE (Paul). - Lot 205

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BARTE (Alexandre) - VERLAINE (Paul). - Lot 205
BARTE (Alexandre) - VERLAINE (Paul). Epigrams. Paris : Librairie Albert Messein, 1926. - In-8, 248 x 160 : 114 pp. 1 f., illustrated cover. Dark green morocco, boards decorated with eight stylized quadrilobes in yellow morocco and presenting in the center a round piece in relief of white bakelite surrounded by a circle of red morocco, arranged in staggered rows and accompanied alternately by the name of the author and the title in gilt capital letters, smooth spine decorated at the ends with the same stylized quatrefoil but with a round piece of white morocco in the center, five gilt fillets and a white morocco pastille surrounded by red morocco at two corners inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (René Kieffer) Deluxe edition printed at 550 copies, illustrated with seventy-four color compositions by the illustrator Alexandre BARTE, including a title vignette, forty-seven chapter headings and twenty-six culs-de-lampe. ONE OF THE NINE FIRST COPIES ON JAPAN, containing a bistre suite of illustrations on the same paper. A unique copy, in a superb original binding by René Kieffer, enriched with twenty original drawings especially conceived for the book, done in pencil and watercolor on Arches wove paper. They bear the signature of E. Gracquemond, a little-known artist who mainly designed drawings to enrich luxury editions of the time. Spine browned.
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