BRANGWYN (Frank) - VERHAEREN (Émile). - Lot 81

BRANGWYN (Frank) - VERHAEREN (Émile). Les Campagnes hallucinées. Paris: Helleu & Sergent, 1927. - In-4, 291 x 229: 118 pp, (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Beige box, boards decorated with a central vertical decoration of two black box lozenges edged with gilt fillet and decorated with wavy gilt fillets and 4 beige box lozenges, both surmounting the tip of three snakeskin lozenges edged with gilt fillet, gilt title on the first cover, smooth spine decorated in the center with a vertical band of black box edged with gilt fillet, double rasp paper endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, black box spine and overlay bands folder, lined slipcase (M. Bernard 1929). Edition of 290 copies, illustrated with 53 black compositions by the British painter, draftsman and engraver Frank BRANGWYN (1857-1966), including 7 full-page lithographs and 46 woodcuts (1 on the title, 6 full-page, 20 at the head of chapters and 19 culs-de-lampe). One of 240 copies on Arches wove paper. A superb copy in a period Art Deco binding by Marguerite Bernard. A pupil of Noulhac for bookbinding and Cuzin for gilding, she was active from 1922 to 1939. She won a bronze medal at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs. Upper half of spine partly untucked. Spine very slightly darkened. Minor stains to a few leaves.