FLAUBERT (Gustave) - ROCHEGROSSE (Georges). La Tentation de Saint Antoine. Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud Successeur 1907. - In-4, 285 x 214: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 213 pp, (1 f.), 5 plates, illustrated cover. Fawn morocco, cold filleting in continuity with the nerves on the inner edge of the boards, ending in a gilt bat iron, ribbed spine adorned on the latter with gilt dots and dashes extending slightly over the boards to the bat, maroquin linings edged with a gilt fillet and adorned with a framing cold fillet, burgundy silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, edged slipcase (G. G. Levitzky). Sought-after deluxe edition, illustrated with 32 compositions by Georges ROCHEGROSSE (1859-1938) etched in color by Eugène Decisy, including 26 in the text and 6 hors texte. There is also a title vignette and eight different frames for each part, reproduced in gray. Edition of 350 copies. This is the SINGLE EXEMPLE, in addition to the stated edition, on Arches wove paper, CONTAINING ALL THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY GEORGES ROCHEGROSSE, justified by the publisher. Not listed in any of the bibliographies consulted. Here we find the superb watercolor drawings, enhanced with gouache and signed on strong wove paper, of the 32 etchings, the color drawing with variants of the title vignette, and the Indian ink drawing of the 8 frames on card, for a total of 41 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. The copy also includes the following items: - a double suite of etchings (first state in black and finished state in color with remarks), - the final proof of the color suite with remarks of 32 etchings, on wove paper, each proof justified and signed by the artist, some with autograph indications, - publication brochure. A very fine copy in a later double binding by Grégoire Levitzky, very well preserved.
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FLAUBERT (Gustave) - ROCHEGROSSE (Georges).
La Tentation de Saint Antoine.
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud Successeur 1907. - In-4, 285 x 214: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 213 pp, (1 f.), 5 plates, illustrated cover. Fawn morocco, cold filleting in continuity with the nerves on the inner edge of the boards, ending in a gilt bat iron, ribbed spine adorned on the latter with gilt dots and dashes extending slightly over the boards to the bat, maroquin linings edged with a gilt fillet and adorned with a framing cold fillet, burgundy silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, edged slipcase (G. G. Levitzky).
Sought-after deluxe edition, illustrated with 32 compositions by Georges ROCHEGROSSE (1859-1938) etched in color by Eugène Decisy, including 26 in the text and 6 hors texte. There is also a title vignette and eight different frames for each part, reproduced in gray.
Edition of 350 copies. This is the SINGLE EXEMPLE, in addition to the stated edition, on Arches wove paper, CONTAINING ALL THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY GEORGES ROCHEGROSSE, justified by the publisher. Not listed in any of the bibliographies consulted.
Here we find the superb watercolor drawings, enhanced with gouache and signed on strong wove paper, of the 32 etchings, the color drawing with variants of the title vignette, and the Indian ink drawing of the 8 frames on card, for a total of 41 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS.
The copy also includes the following items:
- a double suite of etchings (first state in black and finished state in color with remarks),
- the final proof of the color suite with remarks of 32 etchings, on wove paper, each proof justified and signed by the artist, some with autograph indications,
- publication brochure.
A very fine copy in a later double binding by Grégoire Levitzky, very well preserved.
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