LEGRAND (Louis).
Poëmes à l'eau-forte.
Paris: Gustave Pellet, [1914]. - Small in-4, 240x190: 243 pp, (6 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Red morocco, double framed with two gilt fillets on the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco framed on the inside, decorated with 5 gilt fillets, yellow moiré silk lining edged with a gilt fillet, yellow moiré silk endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Ch. Septier).

A highly sought-after and remarkable edition, featuring some of the finest illustrations by Louis LEGRAND (1863-1951).
This is a collection of poems by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Richepin, Lorrain, Corbière, Rimbaud, Gautier, Noailles, Samain, Mourey, Kahn, Desbordes-Valmore and Jaubert. The book is illustrated with 108 compositions by Legrand, including 30 original etchings in the text or on full pages, and 78 drawings reproduced in the text and on the cover.
The edition was strictly limited to 80 copies on watermarked laid paper bearing the artist's name.
A very fine copy bound in the '30s or '40s by Charles Septier, a former worker of Charles Meunier.
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LEGRAND (Louis). Poëmes à l'eau-forte. Paris: Gustave Pellet, [1914]. - Small in-4, 240x190: 243 pp, (6 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Red morocco, double framed with two gilt fillets on the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco framed on the inside, decorated with 5 gilt fillets, yellow moiré silk lining edged with a gilt fillet, yellow moiré silk endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Ch. Septier). A highly sought-after and remarkable edition, featuring some of the finest illustrations by Louis LEGRAND (1863-1951). This is a collection of poems by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Richepin, Lorrain, Corbière, Rimbaud, Gautier, Noailles, Samain, Mourey, Kahn, Desbordes-Valmore and Jaubert. The book is illustrated with 108 compositions by Legrand, including 30 original etchings in the text or on full pages, and 78 drawings reproduced in the text and on the cover. The edition was strictly limited to 80 copies on watermarked laid paper bearing the artist's name. A very fine copy bound in the '30s or '40s by Charles Septier, a former worker of Charles Meunier.

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LEGRAND (Louis). Poëmes à l'eau-forte. Paris: Gustave Pellet, [1914]. - Small in-4, 240x190: 243 pp, (6 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Red morocco, double framed with two gilt fillets on the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco framed on the inside, decorated with 5 gilt fillets, yellow moiré silk lining edged with a gilt fillet, yellow moiré silk endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Ch. Septier). A highly sought-after and remarkable edition, featuring some of the finest illustrations by Louis LEGRAND (1863-1951). This is a collection of poems by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Richepin, Lorrain, Corbière, Rimbaud, Gautier, Noailles, Samain, Mourey, Kahn, Desbordes-Valmore and Jaubert. The book is illustrated with 108 compositions by Legrand, including 30 original etchings in the text or on full pages, and 78 drawings reproduced in the text and on the cover. The edition was strictly limited to 80 copies on watermarked laid paper bearing the artist's name. A very fine copy bound in the '30s or '40s by Charles Septier, a former worker of Charles Meunier.
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