VICAIRE (Gabriel). Émaux bressans. Paris : Librairie Henri Leclerc, 1904. - In-16, 190 x 141 : (2 ff.), 288 pp. (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Fawn morocco, boards decorated with gilt floral motifs and mosaics of burgundy, havana and grey morocco, smooth spine decorated in the same spirit, gilt filets and branches motif inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept, case (René Kieffer). New edition of this beautiful poetic collection by Gabriel Vicaire. One of the 50 numbered copies on Japan paper, this one unique, enriched with 68 fine and beautiful original watercolors signed by Frédéric BOURDIN, two of them on full page. This artist is known for having been illustrator of novels like Balzac's Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu or Stendhal's La Chartreuse de Parme. Very nice copy in a mosaic binding by René Kieffer. Spine slightly faded. Provenance: Francis Kettaneh, with bookplate. - J. C. Courbin, with ex-libris.
Estimate
€600 - €800
Result
Not sold
Buyer's premium
25%
VICAIRE (Gabriel).
Émaux bressans.
Paris : Librairie Henri Leclerc, 1904. - In-16, 190 x 141 : (2 ff.), 288 pp. (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Fawn morocco, boards decorated with gilt floral motifs and mosaics of burgundy, havana and grey morocco, smooth spine decorated in the same spirit, gilt filets and branches motif inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept, case (René Kieffer).
New edition of this beautiful poetic collection by Gabriel Vicaire.
One of the 50 numbered copies on Japan paper, this one unique, enriched with 68 fine and beautiful original watercolors signed by Frédéric BOURDIN, two of them on full page.
This artist is known for having been illustrator of novels like Balzac's Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu or Stendhal's La Chartreuse de Parme.
Very nice copy in a mosaic binding by René Kieffer.
Spine slightly faded.
Provenance:
Francis Kettaneh, with bookplate. - J. C. Courbin, with ex-libris.
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