UZANNE (Octave). - Lot 91

UZANNE (Octave). L'Art & l'idée. Revue contemporaine du dilettantisme littéraire et de la curiosité. Paris: ancienne maison Quantin, 1892. - 12 issues bound in 2 volumes in-8, 248x159: (2 ff.), 431 pp. 32 plates, illustrated cover; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 382 pp. (1 f.), 23 plates, illustrated cover. Dark green half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated with gilt and mosaic motifs, gilt head, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved (period binding). Complete collection of this superb artistic and literary review published by Octave Uzanne. It is illustrated with beautiful compositions in the Art Nouveau and Impressionist styles. These 12 issues form 2 volumes of 6 issues each, the whole constituting the magazine's first year of publication. The first issue appeared on January 20, 1892, and the last on December 20 of the same year. Among the artists who illustrated the magazine were Carlos Schwabe, Paul Avril, Eugène Grasset, Robida, Félix Vallotton, Jules and Joseph Chéret, Henri Boutet, Victor Hugo, Louis Morin, Félicien Rops, Eugène Courboin, etc. ONE OF 60 DELUXE COPIES, THIS BEING ONE OF 30 ON JAPON. These deluxe copies are the only ones to be enriched with states of certain engravings or additional figures, distributed as follows: 1. Fumé of the cover and proof before tinting of the frontispiece by Carlos Schwabe engraved by Paul Avril. - 2. 3-color portrait of a child's head engraved on zinc by Delâtre fils and a portrait of Baudelaire on japon, wood-engraved by Félix Vallotton. - 3. 2 states of a special engraved plate by Félicien Rops, one state in black on japon of the 4 plates by Pierre Vidal. - 4. plate specially engraved by Louis Morin entitled La Mascarade italienne. - 6. Two plates by Vidal etched by François Courboin in 2 states. - 7. first state of Vallotton's frontispiece after Giovani Bellini. - 8. color etching, Les Petites femmes de la place Pigalle, printed on 3 registered plates, after the original composition by the engraver M. Bertrand. - 9. unpublished etching by Robida, depicting A Pilgrimage to Mont-Saint-Michel in the 16th century. - 10. two avant la lettre proofs in different inks of two heliogravures by Eugène Grasset. Numbers 5, 11 and 12 are the only ones not to offer additional works or prints. A very fine copy in period mosaic binding, complete with general and delivery covers. The first volume also contains the rare "Supplément à L'Art et l'idée du 20 janvier 1892" (first issue), comprising two sheets of text under a cover offering the magazine subscription form. The second volume is enriched at the end with an engraved carte de visite from the Delâtre artistic printing house. Spine faded.