Accession number
TMP 2023-96.4
Creator
Ramiro, Erastène, 1853-1928, author.
Published
Paris : E. Dentu, Éditeur, 1892.
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Erastène Ramiro was a pseudonym of French lawyer, writer, and bibliographer Eugène Rodrigues.
"Imprimé par Chamerot et Renouard 19, Rue des Saints-Pères, 19 Paris"--Colophon.
Issued in an edition of 350 numbered copies, including 49 copies on japon imperial paper, numbered 2-50.
Copy printed on japon imperial paper; no justification de tirage.
Illustrated with color-printed process block head- and tailpieces, initials, and vignettes after Legrand, and a frontispiece and 10 etched and aquatinted plates by the artist.
With four suites of Legrands etchings in multiple states, including a set of remarque proofs bound in the text, a set of impressions in red ink and hand colored impressions, bound in at the end of the volume.
With a set of impressions of the head- and tailpieces, initials, and vignettes after Legrand printed without the text and bound in at the end of the volume.
Copy also includes two impressions of Legrand's etching "Le Salut Militaire" (Arwas 72), which reproduces the figure from the tailpiece vignette on page 59, one hand colored and the other printed in red ink.
Color process prints of Legrand's drawings for Cours de danse fin de siècle, along with Erastène Ramiro's text, appeared in the May 10, 1891 supplement of the periodical "Gil Blas illustre", where the piece appeared under the title "Les excentricités de la danse."
"Imprimé par Chamerot et Renouard 19, Rue des Saints-Pères, 19 Paris"--Colophon.
Issued in an edition of 350 numbered copies, including 49 copies on japon imperial paper, numbered 2-50.
Copy printed on japon imperial paper; no justification de tirage.
Illustrated with color-printed process block head- and tailpieces, initials, and vignettes after Legrand, and a frontispiece and 10 etched and aquatinted plates by the artist.
With four suites of Legrands etchings in multiple states, including a set of remarque proofs bound in the text, a set of impressions in red ink and hand colored impressions, bound in at the end of the volume.
With a set of impressions of the head- and tailpieces, initials, and vignettes after Legrand printed without the text and bound in at the end of the volume.
Copy also includes two impressions of Legrand's etching "Le Salut Militaire" (Arwas 72), which reproduces the figure from the tailpiece vignette on page 59, one hand colored and the other printed in red ink.
Color process prints of Legrand's drawings for Cours de danse fin de siècle, along with Erastène Ramiro's text, appeared in the May 10, 1891 supplement of the periodical "Gil Blas illustre", where the piece appeared under the title "Les excentricités de la danse."
Description
59 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (partly color) ; 29 x 20.7 cm
Provenance
From the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Binding
Full vellum, hand lettered in green ink with etched design of a frog performing a high kick (see remarque proof of "Brisement assis") by Louis Legrand; in cardboard slipcase.
Classification
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