Various Artists. L’Estampe moderne, edited by Charles Masson and Henri Piazza. Paris: L’Imprimerie Champenois, 1897-1899.
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Various Artists. L’Estampe moderne, edited by Charles Masson and Henri Piazza. Paris: L’Imprimerie Champenois, 1897-1899.

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Various Artists. L’Estampe moderne, edited by Charles Masson and Henri Piazza. Paris: L’Imprimerie Champenois, 1897-1899.

A set of 100 Art Nouveau colour prints by many of the most popular artists of the period, originally published in 24 monthly editions. Ray French 362.

2 volumes (400 x 320mm). Titles with illustrations by Alphonse Mucha, with the full complement of 100 colour lithograph and collotype plates, some mounted, by artists including Edward Burne-Jones, Louis Rhead, Theophile Steinlen, Robert Engels, Henri Boutet, and Alphonse Mucha, with tissue guards, publisher’s embossed stamp in margins (2 mounted plates detached, a few lightly spotted). Publisher’s cloth gilt with floral design (extremities lightly rubbed).