Lot 489
Legrand (Edy) Macao & Cosmage ou l'Experience du Bonheur, pochoir illustrations, Paris, 1919 & another by the same (2)
Hammer Price: £300
Description
Legrand (Edy) Macao & Cosmage ou l'Experience du Bonheur, first edition, numerous pochoir illustrations coloured by Jean Saudé including endpapers, some light spotting or soiling, front endpapers with slight wear to hinge and stain to outer margins, original pochoir pictorial limp boards, rebacked in cloth, rubbed and soiled, covers with faint central vertical crease, light water-staining to upper cover, Paris, 1919; Voyages & Glorieuses Découvertes des Grands Navigateurs & Explorateurs Français, first edition, numerous pochoir illustrations, one double-page, and 2 folding maps, title with slight adhesions from facing endpaper near inner margin, pictorial front endpapers, new rear endpapers, original cloth-backed pochoir pictorial boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, Paris, [c.1924], 4to & folio (2)
⁂ Superb Art Deco illustrations with wonderful vibrant pochoir colouring. The first is the artist's first children's book, executed when he was only 18 years old.
Description
Legrand (Edy) Macao & Cosmage ou l'Experience du Bonheur, first edition, numerous pochoir illustrations coloured by Jean Saudé including endpapers, some light spotting or soiling, front endpapers with slight wear to hinge and stain to outer margins, original pochoir pictorial limp boards, rebacked in cloth, rubbed and soiled, covers with faint central vertical crease, light water-staining to upper cover, Paris, 1919; Voyages & Glorieuses Découvertes des Grands Navigateurs & Explorateurs Français, first edition, numerous pochoir illustrations, one double-page, and 2 folding maps, title with slight adhesions from facing endpaper near inner margin, pictorial front endpapers, new rear endpapers, original cloth-backed pochoir pictorial boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, Paris, [c.1924], 4to & folio (2)
⁂ Superb Art Deco illustrations with wonderful vibrant pochoir colouring. The first is the artist's first children's book, executed when he was only 18 years old.