DENIS (Maurice). Le Livre de Tobie. Translated from the Vulgate by Le Maistre de Sacy, with a preface by Abbé Jean-Pierre Altermann. Paris, 1929. -In-folio, 350x254: (3 ff.), VII pp., (1 blank f.), 50 pp., (3 last blank ff.), printed cover. Dark brown morocco, boards decorated with a double frame of black fillets, decorated with a fleuron at the corners of the two frames and small parallel fillets gilded in the inner frame, all framing a large central rectangle divided into 12 compartments drawn with black fillets, each adorned with a gilt lozenge, ribbed spine, dark brown morocco frame inside, adorned with a gilt straight and zigzag fillet, gilt fleuron at corners, brown moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover retained, case (A. Bruel, Angers). Edition of 200 copies, illustrated with 29 color compositions by Maurice DENIS (1870-1943), wood-engraved by Jacques Beltrand. COPY ENRICHED WITH ONE OF THE 25 SUITES OF ALL THE WOODCUTS WITH COLOR BREAKDOWN. This suite is justified and signed by Jacques Beltrand on a front leaf. A very fine copy, probably bound in the 1950s by the Angevin bookbinder André Bruel. Spine slightly faded. Frequent foxing.
Estimate
€600 - €800
Result
€625
Buyer's premium
28%
DENIS (Maurice).
Le Livre de Tobie. Translated from the Vulgate by Le Maistre de Sacy, with a preface by Abbé Jean-Pierre Altermann.
Paris, 1929. -In-folio, 350x254: (3 ff.), VII pp., (1 blank f.), 50 pp., (3 last blank ff.), printed cover. Dark brown morocco, boards decorated with a double frame of black fillets, decorated with a fleuron at the corners of the two frames and small parallel fillets gilded in the inner frame, all framing a large central rectangle divided into 12 compartments drawn with black fillets, each adorned with a gilt lozenge, ribbed spine, dark brown morocco frame inside, adorned with a gilt straight and zigzag fillet, gilt fleuron at corners, brown moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover retained, case (A. Bruel, Angers).
Edition of 200 copies, illustrated with 29 color compositions by Maurice DENIS (1870-1943), wood-engraved by Jacques Beltrand.
COPY ENRICHED WITH ONE OF THE 25 SUITES OF ALL THE WOODCUTS WITH COLOR BREAKDOWN. This suite is justified and signed by Jacques Beltrand on a front leaf.
A very fine copy, probably bound in the 1950s by the Angevin bookbinder André Bruel.
Spine slightly faded. Frequent foxing.
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