Lot 173
  • 173

L'Image

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • paper and ink
L'Image Revue artistique et littéraire. Paris, Floury, 1896-1897



12 issues, folio (13 1/2 x 10 in.; 340 x 255 mm). Printed on chine, with proofs before letters and twelve plates in a third state ("fumé"). Wrappers bound in at the end, coral and green Art Nouveau poppy patterned cloth, coral patterned endpapers, black morocco spine label.

Condition

12 issues, folio (13 1/2 x 10 in.; 340 x 255 mm). Printed on chine, with proofs before letters and twelve plates in a third state ("fumé"). Wrappers bound in at the end, coral and green Art Nouveau poppy patterned cloth, coral patterned endpapers, black morocco spine label.
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Catalogue Note

One of only  100 copies printed on chine with a "tirage à part" of the illustrations. Literary contributors to this important fin-de-siècle publication includes Barrès, Debussy, R. de Gourmont, P. Louÿs, Mauclair, Verhaeren, and others. Illustraions are by Chéret, Daumier, Degas, Fantin-Latour, Maillol, Millet, Mucha, Pissarro, Puvis de Chavannes, Rodin, Schwabe, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others.