THE IMAGE. - Lot 108

THE IMAGE. Paris: Floury, December 1896-December 1897. - 13 fascicles in-4, bound, under folder with spine and edges of pink veal plates, decorated with cold foliage on the plates and a black and gold motif on the spine, slipcase. Complete collection of this important monthly review of modern art founded by the French Corporation of Wood Engravers, published under the literary direction of Roger Marx and Jules Rais, and under the artistic direction of Tony Beltrand, Auguste Lepère and Léon Ruffe. L'Image was intended "to group together, without school bias, in the same search for art, writers, draftsmen, engravers, and to achieve the absolute unity of illustration and text, by offering only the original and the unpublished. " Some of the great names of the time such as George Auriol, Mucha, Maurice Denis, Daniel Vierge, Lucien Pissarro, Pierre Louÿs, Helleu, Remy de Gourmont, Jules Renard, Vallotton, Maurice Barrès, Victor Prouvé, Gustave Kahn, Lucien Descaves, Puvis de Chavannes, Auguste Rodin, Degas, Luc-Olivier Merson, etc. collaborated in this review . The covers are very nicely illustrated. The cover of number 1 includes an illustration by Mucha and that of number 11 by Toulouse-Lautrec. An enriched copy of the Numéro spécimen published in 1904, with a preface by Anatole France and with illustrations by Bellery-Desfontaines, Léon Ruffe, Cappiello, Charles Cottet, Georges de Feure, Edgar Degas, Georges Jeanniot, Paul Jouve, Bernard Naudin, Auguste Rodin and Daniel Vierge. This new formula had been proposed by René Blum and G. d'Hostingue, it was not followed up. Very well preserved copies despite some minor tears on some backs. Scattered freckles. Back of the shirt faded.