[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - NERVAL, Gérard de.

Lot 1394
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Result : 15 165EUR
[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - NERVAL, Gérard de.
Poetry. Odelettes, Les Chimères, Chansons et Vieilles ballades. Expanded edition with four unpublished sonnets and decorated with a portrait, headpieces and culs-de-lampe by Jean Perrier. Paris, Éditions d'art Édouard Pelletan, Helleu & Sergent, 1924. In-12 [152 x 100] of 191 pp, (2) ff, 1 portrait : brown calf continuously tinted in shades of green, decorated on the boards and spine with a decoration of wavy cold-lettered and silver lamé fillets, author's name, title and date in cold-lettered and partially silver lamé letters on the first board, smooth spine, interior framing of khaki green calf, decorated with cold-lettered fillets, painted lining and endpapers, untrimmed, cover preserved, khaki green calf spine and bands folder, slipcase (Louise Denise Germain, Canape). Edition illustrated by Jean Perrier with an out-of-text portrait of the author after the medallion of Jehan du Seigneur, six headpieces and numerous culs-de-lampe. One of the first 25 copies on China paper (n° 2), enriched with three states of the portrait and a suite of vignettes and ornaments. Exquisite decorated binding. Decorated with "waves, obtained by a double set of patina and dyes in shades of green (whose original brightness has faded), raised with silver lamé, as the titling" (Fabienne Le Bars). Provenance : Louis Barthou, with ex-libris (sale IV, 1936, n° 1791). - Michel Wittock, with ex-libris (sale IV, 11 May 2011, n° 10). Spine of the folder faded and split. Exhibition: Paris, D'or et d'argent: livres d'artistes, reliures de création d'AIR Neuf, reliures anciens, Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, 2004, n° 181.- Brussels, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 2008-2009, n° 107.- Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 2017, n° 66.
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