Art and Beauty. The Human Form and Its Beauty. Artistic studies illustrated with 340 magnificent photographic engravings, 22 of which are in four colours. Paris, Librairie artistique et littéraire, [1906]. In-folio (36 x 28 cm). Original edition in French with percaline binding illustrated on the cover, 272 pages paginated from 1 to 236 then from 1 to 36, 340 black and white and color photographs in phototypesy out of text and in text, texts by Guy de Teramond, Henry de Pesquidoux, Gustave Kahn, Victorien du Saussay et al, , études sur le nu dans l'Art, le nu chez Félicien Rops et Auguste Rodin. The black and white and colour photographs are identical in every respect to those present in the two works published by Otto Schmidt and Ernst Schneider. This extremely rare work was probably printed in Germany. This original French-language version is not in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, but the Library of Congress in Washington and the Kunstbibliothek du Staatliche Museen in Berlin each have a copy . Cf. Bertolotti pp. 18-19.
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Art and Beauty.
The Human Form and Its Beauty. Artistic studies illustrated with 340 magnificent photographic engravings, 22 of which are in
four colours.
Paris, Librairie artistique et
littéraire, [1906].
In-folio (36 x 28 cm). Original edition in French with percaline binding illustrated on the cover, 272 pages paginated from 1 to 236 then from 1 to 36, 340 black and white and color photographs in phototypesy out of text and in text, texts by Guy de Teramond, Henry de Pesquidoux, Gustave Kahn, Victorien du Saussay et al, , études sur le nu dans l'Art, le nu chez Félicien Rops et Auguste
Rodin.
The black and white and colour photographs are identical in every respect to those present in the two works published by Otto Schmidt and Ernst Schneider. This extremely rare work was probably printed in Germany. This original French-language version is not in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, but the Library of Congress in Washington and the Kunstbibliothek du Staatliche Museen in Berlin
each
have a copy
.
Cf. Bertolotti pp. 18-19.
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