DULAC (Edmond) - ROSENTHAL (Leonard) Au royaume de la perle. Paris : H. Piazza, [1920] - In-4, 298 x 230 : 139 pp. 10 plates, blue cover with gold and silver decoration. Dark blue morocco, beautiful mosaic composition in the center of the first cover, featuring a nude woman kneeling in a shell surrounded by a string of pearls, ribbed spine decorated in the center with a mosaic shell and string of pearls, gilded fillets and mosaic pastilles inside, gilded head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase (Visinant). Beautiful luxury edition. It is illustrated with 10 lovely compositions by Edmond DULAC, reproduced in color outside the text, pasted on and under a captioned serpente, as well as numerous monochrome or two-tone ornaments, lettering and culs-de-lampe. Limited edition of 1,500 copies on japon. A fine copy in a strictly period binding signed by Visinant, who practiced in Paris from 1895 to about 1930. Copies of this book bound in this manner are very rare, and despite the slightly faded spine, have been preserved very well.
Estimate
€400 - €600
Result
€948
Buyer's premium
30%
DULAC (Edmond) - ROSENTHAL (Leonard) Au royaume de la perle. Paris : H. Piazza, [1920] - In-4, 298 x 230 : 139 pp. 10 plates, blue cover with gold and silver decoration. Dark blue morocco, beautiful mosaic composition in the center of the first cover, featuring a nude woman kneeling in a shell surrounded by a string of pearls, ribbed spine decorated in the center with a mosaic shell and string of pearls, gilded fillets and mosaic pastilles inside, gilded head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase (Visinant). Beautiful luxury edition.
It is illustrated with 10 lovely compositions by Edmond DULAC, reproduced in color outside the text, pasted on and under a captioned serpente, as well as numerous monochrome or two-tone ornaments, lettering and culs-de-lampe. Limited edition of 1,500 copies on japon. A fine copy in a strictly period binding signed by Visinant, who practiced in Paris from 1895 to about 1930. Copies of this book bound in this manner are very rare, and despite the slightly faded spine, have been preserved very well.
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