Lot 68
Kieffer (René, binder).- Haraucourt (Edmond) 4 parts in 1, hand-coloured illustrations, dark brown goatskin jansenist binding with inlaid mosiac doublures, Paris, 1894
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000
Description
Kieffer (René, binder).- Haraucourt (Edmond) L'Effort: La Madone. L'Antechrist. L'Immortalité. La Fin du Monde, 4 parts in 1, number 118 for le Baron de Pommereul, [?of 180], hand-coloured decorative floral half-title, limitation and title by Leon Rudnicki, each part with pictorial title and text within pictorial or decorative border, many coloured, dark brown goatskin jansenist binding, by René Kieffer, spine titled in gilt with five raised bands, crimson goatskin mosaic doublures inlaid with leafy branches in brown and black goatskin within border of three thick gilt rules, signed at foot of front doublure and with his ticket, red patterned silk linings, with engraved bookplate of J.Soehnlin and original hand-coloured pictorial wrappers bound in, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly rubbed and faded, board slip-case (rubbed), 4to (binding 285 x 225mm.), Paris, Les Bibliophiles Contemporains, 1894.
⁂ Magnificent work with four stories illustrated by different symbolist artists, comprising: La Madone, colour lithographs after Alexandre Lunois; L'Antechrist, engravings after Eugene Couboin, hand-coloured by A.Charpentier; L'Immortalité, etchings and engravings by Carloz Schwabe, the latter hand-coloured by Charpentier; La Fin du Monde, pictorial title printed in silver and illustrations by Alexandre Séon.
Description
Kieffer (René, binder).- Haraucourt (Edmond) L'Effort: La Madone. L'Antechrist. L'Immortalité. La Fin du Monde, 4 parts in 1, number 118 for le Baron de Pommereul, [?of 180], hand-coloured decorative floral half-title, limitation and title by Leon Rudnicki, each part with pictorial title and text within pictorial or decorative border, many coloured, dark brown goatskin jansenist binding, by René Kieffer, spine titled in gilt with five raised bands, crimson goatskin mosaic doublures inlaid with leafy branches in brown and black goatskin within border of three thick gilt rules, signed at foot of front doublure and with his ticket, red patterned silk linings, with engraved bookplate of J.Soehnlin and original hand-coloured pictorial wrappers bound in, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly rubbed and faded, board slip-case (rubbed), 4to (binding 285 x 225mm.), Paris, Les Bibliophiles Contemporains, 1894.
⁂ Magnificent work with four stories illustrated by different symbolist artists, comprising: La Madone, colour lithographs after Alexandre Lunois; L'Antechrist, engravings after Eugene Couboin, hand-coloured by A.Charpentier; L'Immortalité, etchings and engravings by Carloz Schwabe, the latter hand-coloured by Charpentier; La Fin du Monde, pictorial title printed in silver and illustrations by Alexandre Séon.