HAUTOT (Georges) - MURGER (Henri).
Scenes of Bohemian Life.
Paris : Éditions littéraires de France, [1940s]. - In-4, 247 x 195: (3 ff. first blank), XII, 352 pp. (4 ff. last three blanks), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover, untrimmed, blue cloth spine folder and publisher's slipcase. 

Edition of 1045 numbered copies on wove paper, illustrated with seventy-eight color compositions by the cartoonist and humorist Georges HAUTOT (1887-1963), including one on the cover, sixty-five in the text and twelve out of text.

HEAD COPY, NUMBER 1, enriched with a suite on vellum of the twelve off-texts and ALL THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS plus one not retained for the cul-de-lampe of chapter XII. The total is seventy-nine drawings, seventy-eight of which were used in the printing of the book, each bearing pencil indications. They are not signed and some have a pencil or ink sketch on the back.

The suite and the drawings are kept in a separate folder, identical to the one of the book.

A very well preserved copy in spite of the partially uncropped first booklet.
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HAUTOT (Georges) - MURGER (Henri). Scenes of Bohemian Life. Paris : Éditions littéraires de France, [1940s]. - In-4, 247 x 195: (3 ff. first blank), XII, 352 pp. (4 ff. last three blanks), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover, untrimmed, blue cloth spine folder and publisher's slipcase. Edition of 1045 numbered copies on wove paper, illustrated with seventy-eight color compositions by the cartoonist and humorist Georges HAUTOT (1887-1963), including one on the cover, sixty-five in the text and twelve out of text. HEAD COPY, NUMBER 1, enriched with a suite on vellum of the twelve off-texts and ALL THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS plus one not retained for the cul-de-lampe of chapter XII. The total is seventy-nine drawings, seventy-eight of which were used in the printing of the book, each bearing pencil indications. They are not signed and some have a pencil or ink sketch on the back. The suite and the drawings are kept in a separate folder, identical to the one of the book. A very well preserved copy in spite of the partially uncropped first booklet.

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HAUTOT (Georges) - MURGER (Henri). Scenes of Bohemian Life. Paris : Éditions littéraires de France, [1940s]. - In-4, 247 x 195: (3 ff. first blank), XII, 352 pp. (4 ff. last three blanks), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover, untrimmed, blue cloth spine folder and publisher's slipcase. Edition of 1045 numbered copies on wove paper, illustrated with seventy-eight color compositions by the cartoonist and humorist Georges HAUTOT (1887-1963), including one on the cover, sixty-five in the text and twelve out of text. HEAD COPY, NUMBER 1, enriched with a suite on vellum of the twelve off-texts and ALL THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS plus one not retained for the cul-de-lampe of chapter XII. The total is seventy-nine drawings, seventy-eight of which were used in the printing of the book, each bearing pencil indications. They are not signed and some have a pencil or ink sketch on the back. The suite and the drawings are kept in a separate folder, identical to the one of the book. A very well preserved copy in spite of the partially uncropped first booklet.
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