French Illustrated Books

A group of 27 works (all but one illustrated)  in 32 volumes (2 works issued in parts), many limited editions and unique copies, various formats and bindings, condition generally good. The group includes:



 

Chagall, Marc (illus.) The Jerusalem Windows. Text by Jean Leymarie. Folio. New York, 1962. With 2 original lithos. Publisher's red cloth, pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. — Colette. L'Envers du Music-Hall. Argenteuil, 1926. 4to. Engravings by J. E. Laboureur. Limited edition, copy no. 23 of 20 copies on Japon de Shidzuoka, with a double suite of the engravings, from a total edition of 440. Vellum boards, hand-painted or stenciled upper cover; lower right cover of front cover dampstained. — Defoe, Daniel. La Vie et les aventures étranges et surprenantes de Robinson Crusoe.  Paris, 1926. 3 volumes, folio. Wood-engraved illustrations printed in color by Pierre Falké. Pictorial wrappers. Marbled slipcase.  With 6 original drawings, one suppressed woodcut, 10 proofs on chine in the first state, one artist's proof of Crusoe printed in color, and an extra suite of the illustrations in color housed in a separate slipcase.— Fleuret, Fernand. Eloge de Raoul Dufy. N.p., n.d. Copy no. 15 of 150 on Velin d'Arches. Engraved portrait of Fleuret, and 4 color lithographs by Raoul Dufy. With an extra set of the lithographs numbered 15/31 and signed by Dufy. Printed pink wrappers. — Gautier, Théophile. Le Capitaine Fracasse. Paris, ca. 1866. 60 parts in pictorial wrappers, 8vo; some wrappers frayed, age darkened and soiled. Illustrations by Gustave Doré, with 2 proofs on chine added (see pp. 108 and 220). Pink marbled chemise and slipcase; top of slipcase broken. — Giono, Jean.  Jean le Bleu. N.p.,1939. 2 copies, folio, each with 80 original watercolors by Barta and calligraphic text. 3 original watercolor drawings on the wrappers.  Each labeled "Exemplaire unique." Loose, and housed in vellum backed chemises.— Joyant, Maurice. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris, 1926. 4to. Exemplaire réservé "a" on japon. With 8 color  lithographs and 6 original drypoints after Lautrec. Pictorial wrappers. — Ovid. Elegies amoureuses. Paris, 1935. 31 wood engravings by J. L. Perrichon after Auguste Rodin.  Exemplaire d'artiste. Loose in printed wrappers. Vellum backed morocco chemise. — (Segonzac, A. Dunoyer de, illus.)  23 trial proofs of war etchings on Japan paper signed for 3 books by Roland Dorgeles: La Boule de Gui  (5); Le Cabaret de la belle femme (8), Les Croix de bois (10).  Tan cloth folding case. From the Crowninshield collection. — and 18 others.

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