[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise]. BURNAT-PROVINS, Marguerite.

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[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise]. BURNAT-PROVINS, Marguerite.
Le Livre pour toi. Paris : E. Sansot & Co, [1907]. In-8 square [182 x 182] of (110) ff. the first blank : partially hammered blond shaded calf, boards decorated with gold and silver lamé decorations, including four trapezoids surrounding the title of the book calligraphed with a gold lamé stylus on the first board, and 4 bands in a frame and a central square surrounding a sowing of small staples on the second board, spine decorated in the boxes with a small triangular composition lamé in gold and silver, 9 gilt fillets inside, lining and endpapers of orange silk embroidered with mauve floral compositions set with small gilt blades, double guards, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine kept, modern case (G. Mercier 1913 - Louise-Denise Germain) First edition printed with care in Vevey by Säuberlin. Edition of 250 copies: one of 236 on Featherweight (n° 178). One hundred prose poems dedicated by Marguerite Burnat-Provins (Arras, 1872 - 1952) to her lover. The wife was then obliged to leave the Swiss Eden and a comfortable life for long wanderings in Paris, Italy, Lebanon and Morocco. Elegant binding by Mercier, decorated by Louise-Denise Germain. "This binding, dated 1913, is a good example of the decorative techniques favored before the war by L.-D. Germain, combining hammering and inlays of metallic silver or gold blades: we find the sowing of small square blades, associated here with bands composed of thin blades cut like thin strips. The other characteristic element is the presence of the calligraphic title on the first plate" (Fabienne Le Bars). Exhibition : Paris, Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1913, n° 2602. - Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 2017, n° 15.
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