Lot 205
Sauvage (Sylvain).- Samain (Albert) Contes..., one of 20 copies on Japon impérial with an original drawing and copper plate, bound in goatskin by J.Trinckvel, Paris, 1926
Hammer Price: £700
Description
Sauvage (Sylvain).- Samain (Albert) Contes: Xanthis, Divine Bontemps, Hyalis, Rovere et Angisele, one of 20 copies on Japon impérial with an original drawing, an unused plate, and additional suites of plates (one of the colour decompositions, another in sanguine of the principal plate), from an edition limited to 271, printed in red & black, 25 colour copper-engraved plates by Sylvain Sauvage, bound in dark blue goatskin, by J.Trinckvel, covers with wide border of onlaid fawn strips with green leaf and small red circles of goatskin at corners between thick gilt fillets, spine titled in gilt with similar onlaid compartments and four raised bands, brown goatskin doublures with triple gilt fillet border, front doublure inset with one of the original copper plates and signed at foot, original wrappers bound in, t.e.g., others uncut, very slight rubbing to spine, board slip-case (a little rubbed), 8vo (binding c.260 x 180mm.), Paris, 1926.
Description
Sauvage (Sylvain).- Samain (Albert) Contes: Xanthis, Divine Bontemps, Hyalis, Rovere et Angisele, one of 20 copies on Japon impérial with an original drawing, an unused plate, and additional suites of plates (one of the colour decompositions, another in sanguine of the principal plate), from an edition limited to 271, printed in red & black, 25 colour copper-engraved plates by Sylvain Sauvage, bound in dark blue goatskin, by J.Trinckvel, covers with wide border of onlaid fawn strips with green leaf and small red circles of goatskin at corners between thick gilt fillets, spine titled in gilt with similar onlaid compartments and four raised bands, brown goatskin doublures with triple gilt fillet border, front doublure inset with one of the original copper plates and signed at foot, original wrappers bound in, t.e.g., others uncut, very slight rubbing to spine, board slip-case (a little rubbed), 8vo (binding c.260 x 180mm.), Paris, 1926.