Quatorze lithographies originales de Toulouse-Lautrec pour illustrer des chansons.

Accession number: 
PML 141410
Author: 
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901.
Published: 
Paris : H. Lefèbvre, [1935]
Description: 
14 leaves : all ill. (lithograph) ; 34 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title page, printed in red and black ink, and contents, printed on folded sheet, with suite of 14 loose plates.
Collection 14 of lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec, originally commissioned in 1895 by M. Batlan to appear as lithographic song sheet covers for popular ballads containing music by Désiré Dihau and poems by Jean Richepin; lithographs printed and issued by Batlan's successor, music publisher C. Joubert; the plates printed from the original lithographic stones preserved by the Joubert firm.
Edition comprising 20 copies on chine containing a suite of the plates in black and white and an additional suite in color, numbered I-XX, and an issue of 100 copies on vélin blanc, numbered 1-100, with a single set of the lithographs printed in black and white.
Library had copy no. 15 on vélin blanc.

Binding: 
Folded sheet and suite of loose plates in in publisher's printed paper portfolio.
Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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