Accession number
TMP 2023-96.12-14
Published
Paris : Gustave Pellet, Éditeur, 1914
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Illustrations: 30 original etchings (23 out of text and 7 in text) by Legrand and 77 process block head- and tailpieces and initials.
A collection of 37 poems by Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, Jean Lorrain, Tristan Corbière, Arthur Rimbaud, Théophile Gautier, Anna de Noailles, Albert Samain, Gabriel Mourey, Gustave Kahn, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and Ernest Jaubert.
Edition of 80 copies.
Hors commerce, printed on japon ad personam for Louis Barthou.
"Achevé d'imprimer en 1914, par Frazier-Soye, pour Gustave Pellet à Paris."--Colophon.
This copy includes Legrand's etchings in 4 states, including the preliminary etched state before retouching in drypoint and further working in aquatint, some bearing the monogram "LB" in the plate, presumably referring to Louis Barthou, along with suites of the first and second states before and after letterpress.
With a set of enlarged impressions of the process-block textual illustrations after Legrand's drawings, printed on japon paper without the text, bound in volume 3, with title page: Tirage à part des illustrations des "Poèmes à l'eau forte" édités par Gustave Pellet, à Paris.
A collection of 37 poems by Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, Jean Lorrain, Tristan Corbière, Arthur Rimbaud, Théophile Gautier, Anna de Noailles, Albert Samain, Gabriel Mourey, Gustave Kahn, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and Ernest Jaubert.
Edition of 80 copies.
Hors commerce, printed on japon ad personam for Louis Barthou.
"Achevé d'imprimer en 1914, par Frazier-Soye, pour Gustave Pellet à Paris."--Colophon.
This copy includes Legrand's etchings in 4 states, including the preliminary etched state before retouching in drypoint and further working in aquatint, some bearing the monogram "LB" in the plate, presumably referring to Louis Barthou, along with suites of the first and second states before and after letterpress.
With a set of enlarged impressions of the process-block textual illustrations after Legrand's drawings, printed on japon paper without the text, bound in volume 3, with title page: Tirage à part des illustrations des "Poèmes à l'eau forte" édités par Gustave Pellet, à Paris.
Description
3 volumes (243 pages, 10 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 24.6 x 20 cm
Provenance
Exlibris of Louis Barthou; from the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Binding
Brown morocco by Marius Michel, with silk doublures, original wrappers bound in, in slipcases.
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