Léon BLOY. Les Vendanges! Lithographs by Henry de GROUX. Text by Léon Bloy (L'Estampe originale, [1894]). Large folio (59.5 x 43 cm), illustrated cover; in red half-maroquin portfolio, title-piece on upper cover. 
A P.A.S. by Henry de Groux (1 p. in-4 on the letterhead of L'Estampe originale) is enclosed.

Extremely rare edition.
Illustrated cover and text by Léon Bloy, La Vigne abandonnée (4 p.) with out-of-text lithograph by Henry de Groux, signed and numbered (69) by the artist, who has inscribed in his own hand the title, La Vigne abandonnée, and the dedication to Marie Krysinska (poetess of Le Chat Noir).
Edition of 100 copies, of which only 6 remain, according to the Biblio-iconographie de Léon Bloy by A. L. Laquerrière and J. Bollery (1935, no. 14). La Vigne abandonnée is the only issue to have appeared; the text was collected in Le Mendiant ingrat (along with the text of what should have been the second issue, Le Cortège de la fiancée).
Enclosed is a P.A.S. from Henry de Groux (1 p. in-4 on the letterhead of L'Estampe originale), received from publisher André Marty of 34 copies of the first issue of Les Vendanges (La Vigne abandonnée); on the tax stamp, de Groux has amused himself by transforming the figure of the Republic into that of Bonaparte.
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Léon BLOY. Les Vendanges! Lithographs by Henry de GROUX. Text by Léon Bloy (L'Estampe originale, [1894]). Large folio (59.5 x 43 cm), illustrated cover; in red half-maroquin portfolio, title-piece on upper cover. A P.A.S. by Henry de Groux (1 p. in-4 on the letterhead of L'Estampe originale) is enclosed. Extremely rare edition. Illustrated cover and text by Léon Bloy, La Vigne abandonnée (4 p.) with out-of-text lithograph by Henry de Groux, signed and numbered (69) by the artist, who has inscribed in his own hand the title, La Vigne abandonnée, and the dedication to Marie Krysinska (poetess of Le Chat Noir). Edition of 100 copies, of which only 6 remain, according to the Biblio-iconographie de Léon Bloy by A. L. Laquerrière and J. Bollery (1935, no. 14). La Vigne abandonnée is the only issue to have appeared; the text was collected in Le Mendiant ingrat (along with the text of what should have been the second issue, Le Cortège de la fiancée). Enclosed is a P.A.S. from Henry de Groux (1 p. in-4 on the letterhead of L'Estampe originale), received from publisher André Marty of 34 copies of the first issue of Les Vendanges (La Vigne abandonnée); on the tax stamp, de Groux has amused himself by transforming the figure of the Republic into that of Bonaparte.

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Léon BLOY. Les Vendanges! Lithographs by Henry de GROUX. Text by Léon Bloy (L'Estampe originale, [1894]). Large folio (59.5 x 43 cm), illustrated cover; in red half-maroquin portfolio, title-piece on upper cover. A P.A.S. by Henry de Groux (1 p. in-4 on the letterhead of L'Estampe originale) is enclosed. Extremely rare edition. Illustrated cover and text by Léon Bloy, La Vigne abandonnée (4 p.) with out-of-text lithograph by Henry de Groux, signed and numbered (69) by the artist, who has inscribed in his own hand the title, La Vigne abandonnée, and the dedication to Marie Krysinska (poetess of Le Chat Noir). Edition of 100 copies, of which only 6 remain, according to the Biblio-iconographie de Léon Bloy by A. L. Laquerrière and J. Bollery (1935, no. 14). La Vigne abandonnée is the only issue to have appeared; the text was collected in Le Mendiant ingrat (along with the text of what should have been the second issue, Le Cortège de la fiancée). Enclosed is a P.A.S. from Henry de Groux (1 p. in-4 on the letterhead of L'Estampe originale), received from publisher André Marty of 34 copies of the first issue of Les Vendanges (La Vigne abandonnée); on the tax stamp, de Groux has amused himself by transforming the figure of the Republic into that of Bonaparte.
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