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Lot 23

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L’Estampe Moderne

Closed17 September 2014

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GBP 11,875

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L’Estampe Moderne
the complete edition in 24 volumes, 1897-99, comprising 96 lithographs and collotypes after designs by contributing artists, mostly in colours, on simili Japan, with the suite of 96 duplicate impressions printed in black only, on China paper, and the four additional prints reserved for subscribers, all stamped TIRAGE de LUXE and numbered No. 89 verso, each subject with title and commentary on a tissue-thin cover sheet, with two text folders with title, cover-page, preface and table of contents (lacking the second year), from the deluxe edition of 150 (the total edition was 2000), published by Ch. Masson & H. Piazza, Paris, each with the publisher’s blindstamp (Lugt 2790) recto, the full sheets, in very good condition, loose (as issued), in the original greenish-grey paper wrappers with title and cover design by Alphonse Mucha, each covered with glacine, in two brown marbled portfolio boxes, not original, all in very good condition (portfolio)
560 x 415 mm. (each volume)
600 x 440 mm. (each box)

Specialist note

Including works after:
A. Agache, A. Artigue, P. Balluriau, J. Baseilhac, C. Bellanger, H. Bellery-Desfontaines, E. Berchmans,
A. Berton, J. G. Besson, L. Borgex, P. Bouisset, H. Boutet, P. Braquemond, L. Breslau, E. Burne-Jones,
G. Bussière, A. Calbet, P. de Chavannes, H. Christiansen, R. Collin, Cormon, G. Darbour, E. Delatre,
M. Delorme, M. Desvallières, H. Detouche, Dillon, E. Dinet, A. Donnay, C. Doudelet, G. Dubufe,
M. Eliot, R. Engels, E. Evenepoele, H. Fantin-Latour, G. de Feure, J. Flandrin, A. Giraldon, L. –A. Girardot,
F.-A. Gorguet, F. Gottlob, J. Granès, E. Grasset, C. Guérin, F. Guiguet, H. Guinier, M. Guyon,
L.-W. Hawkins, P.-C. Helleu, H. Héran, C. Huard, A. Ibels, P. Jouve, J. Jacquemin, A. Jean, F. Jourdain,
A. Laurens, G. de Latenay, E. Laurent, C. Léandre, M. Lenoir, A. Lepère, P. Leroy, A. Lévy, Lévy-Dhurmer,
F. Luigini, L. Malteste, H. Martin, F. –M. Melchers, R. Ménard, L.-O. Merson, H. Meunier, L.-H. Monod,
A. Mucha (Bridges R10b & R10c), A. Muller, J.-A. Muenier, F. Piet, A. Point, R.-X. Prinstet, V. Prouvé,
R. Ranft, A. Rassenfosse, M. Réalier-Dumas, P. Renouard, L. Rhead, M. Robbe, Roedel, H. le Sidaner,
L. Simon, T. Steinlen, G.-H. Stevens, E. Trigoulet, R.-A. Ulmann, J. Wély, E.-A. Wéry, A. Willette and
A. Yank.