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Poëmes à l'eau-forte / illustrés par Louis Legrand.

Accession number
TMP 2023-96.16
Published
Paris : Gustave Pellet, Éditeur, 1914
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Illustrations: 30 etchings( 23 out of text and 7 in text) with aquatints and drypoint, by Legrand, and 77 process head- and tailpieces and initials after drawings by the artist.
Poems by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Richepin, Lorrain, Corbière, Rimbaud, Gautier, de Noailles, Samain, Mourey, Kahn, Desbordes-Valmore, and Jaubert.
Edition of 80 copies.
Library's has a hors commerce copy on large paper.
Includes Legrand's 30 etchings in two states, bound in to the text throughout; with an additional incomplete suite of 26 of the 30 etchings, signed in pencil by the artist, many of them tinted, bound in at the end of the volume.
Includes a set of enlarged impressions of the process block textual illustrations, printed without text, bound in a end of volume.
"Achevé d'imprimer en 1914, par Frazier-Soye, pour Gustave Pellet à Paris."--Colophon.
Description
243 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24.5 x 20 cm
Provenance
Exlibris of P. Brunet; from the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Binding
Inlaid art deco binding in black and red morocco by Louise Marot-Rodde, with chemise and slipcase.
Classification
Department