BOÜÜAERT (Joseph) - LEBERGHE (Charles van).
The Song of Eve. First words - The Temptation - The Fault - Twilight. Lithographs by Joseph Boũũaert.
Brussels : Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique (section du livre moderne), 1924. - In-4, 275 x 185: portrait, (1 blank f.), 187 pp, (2 ff., last blank), 11 plates, illustrated cover. Straw morocco decorated on the boards of a frame formed by a large listel of green morocco set with a black fillet cut at the four corners by a bouquet of mosaic roses and black smoke, the whole underlined by two golden nets, spine ribbed decorated in the same spirit, inner frame of straw morocco, decorated with gilt filets and a green morocco listel decorated with mosaic compositions featuring apple tree branches loaded with fruits, lining and endpapers of beige moiré silk, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine kept, case (Ch. Septier). 

Beautiful illustrated edition of this collection of poems by the Belgian symbolist writer Charles van Leberghe (1861-1907), first published in 1904.
The illustration realized by the Belgian painter and illustrator Joseph Grégoire BOÜÜAERT (1881-1948), includes 30 original lithographs including a black portrait in frontispiece and 29 in bistre including 11 hors texte.
Limited edition of 150 copies, this one of the 90 on japon, first large paper, with a suite of the plates out of text in black, reserved to the members of the Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique. It is enriched at the head and at the end of the paper decorated with the repeated logo of this society, originally used for the sleeve of the copies in sheets.
A very nice copy in a mosaic binding by Charles Septier, perfectly preserved.
Provenance:
Robert de Beauvillain, with engraved bookplate created by Charles Jouas.
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BOÜÜAERT (Joseph) - LEBERGHE (Charles van). The Song of Eve. First words - The Temptation - The Fault - Twilight. Lithographs by Joseph Boũũaert. Brussels : Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique (section du livre moderne), 1924. - In-4, 275 x 185: portrait, (1 blank f.), 187 pp, (2 ff., last blank), 11 plates, illustrated cover. Straw morocco decorated on the boards of a frame formed by a large listel of green morocco set with a black fillet cut at the four corners by a bouquet of mosaic roses and black smoke, the whole underlined by two golden nets, spine ribbed decorated in the same spirit, inner frame of straw morocco, decorated with gilt filets and a green morocco listel decorated with mosaic compositions featuring apple tree branches loaded with fruits, lining and endpapers of beige moiré silk, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine kept, case (Ch. Septier). Beautiful illustrated edition of this collection of poems by the Belgian symbolist writer Charles van Leberghe (1861-1907), first published in 1904. The illustration realized by the Belgian painter and illustrator Joseph Grégoire BOÜÜAERT (1881-1948), includes 30 original lithographs including a black portrait in frontispiece and 29 in bistre including 11 hors texte. Limited edition of 150 copies, this one of the 90 on japon, first large paper, with a suite of the plates out of text in black, reserved to the members of the Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique. It is enriched at the head and at the end of the paper decorated with the repeated logo of this society, originally used for the sleeve of the copies in sheets. A very nice copy in a mosaic binding by Charles Septier, perfectly preserved. Provenance: Robert de Beauvillain, with engraved bookplate created by Charles Jouas.

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BOÜÜAERT (Joseph) - LEBERGHE (Charles van). The Song of Eve. First words - The Temptation - The Fault - Twilight. Lithographs by Joseph Boũũaert. Brussels : Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique (section du livre moderne), 1924. - In-4, 275 x 185: portrait, (1 blank f.), 187 pp, (2 ff., last blank), 11 plates, illustrated cover. Straw morocco decorated on the boards of a frame formed by a large listel of green morocco set with a black fillet cut at the four corners by a bouquet of mosaic roses and black smoke, the whole underlined by two golden nets, spine ribbed decorated in the same spirit, inner frame of straw morocco, decorated with gilt filets and a green morocco listel decorated with mosaic compositions featuring apple tree branches loaded with fruits, lining and endpapers of beige moiré silk, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine kept, case (Ch. Septier). Beautiful illustrated edition of this collection of poems by the Belgian symbolist writer Charles van Leberghe (1861-1907), first published in 1904. The illustration realized by the Belgian painter and illustrator Joseph Grégoire BOÜÜAERT (1881-1948), includes 30 original lithographs including a black portrait in frontispiece and 29 in bistre including 11 hors texte. Limited edition of 150 copies, this one of the 90 on japon, first large paper, with a suite of the plates out of text in black, reserved to the members of the Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique. It is enriched at the head and at the end of the paper decorated with the repeated logo of this society, originally used for the sleeve of the copies in sheets. A very nice copy in a mosaic binding by Charles Septier, perfectly preserved. Provenance: Robert de Beauvillain, with engraved bookplate created by Charles Jouas.
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