DRAINS (Geo A.) - LAFORGUE (Jules). - Lot 235

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DRAINS (Geo A.) - LAFORGUE (Jules). - Lot 235
DRAINS (Geo A.) - LAFORGUE (Jules). Les Complaintes. Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, Simon Kra, [1923]. - Large in-8, 255x192: frontispiece, (4 ff. first two blank), 231 pp. (4 ff. last two blank), printed cover. Dark brown jansenist morocco, ribbed spine, wide blue morocco framing inside, decorated with 15 gilt fillets, brown moiré silk lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Huser). Fine edition at 500 copies, illustrated with one hundred and forty original lithographs by Geo A. DRAINS, including one in color. DRAINS, including one in color on the frontispiece and one hundred and thirty-nine in sanguine, placed in cul-de-lampe, at the head of a chapter overflowing the text or on a full page. The title announces only one hundred and twenty-eight lithographs. One of the first 25 copies on Japanese imperial paper, this being one of the 10 first copies including a black suite on chine collé of the lithographs, and original drawings. This copy includes 8 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, used respectively to illustrate pages 201, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 209 and 210, as well as two additional states on chine of the frontispiece. The suite comprises 138 chine proofs, with those on pages 8 and 42 missing. The proof on page 8 is missing from all suites encountered. A very fine copy bound by Huser. Spine slightly faded.
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