Unique Copy with 20 Original Drawings, Plates in 6 States and ALS from Huysmans
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Paris: Librarie de la Collection des Dix, A. Romagnol éditeur, [1913].
Price: $9,500.00
About the item
“Exemplaire unique avec les Croquis”. Compositions et Gravure Originale de Barlangue. Etched plates in 6 states, many signed in pencil by the artist, 20 ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING STUDIES for the illustrations, an additional 14 leaves of sketches and studies, some double-sided, all bound in at rear. Original prospectus bound in at rear. [xii], 79, [3] pp. 4to. Unique Copy with 20 Original Drawings, Plates in 6 States and ALS from Huysmans. Full contemporary red morocco, covers gilt with interlocking strapwork border, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment, tooled in gilt with strapwork design in the rest, red morocco doublures with inlaid maroon morocco border, moiré endpapers, a.e.g., by E. Maylander, in matching morocco-tipped slipcase. Fine.
Item #263054
A unique copy, elegantly bound, with plates in 6 states, and original studies and sketches for the the plates by Barlangue bound in. In addition, bound-in at the front is a two page Autograph Letter, signed (“J.K. Hüysmans”), dated Paris, 27 Janvier 1902, praising 3 works of Victor Hugo — Les Miserables, Les Travailleurs de la mer, and L'Homme qui rit — as among the greatest works of French literature: “Un volume suffirait à peine pour t'achever d'analyse et de montrer la force et l'ampleur de l'oeuvre d'Hugo … ”; and two Autograph Letters, signed (“Gustave Coquiot”), the author of the Preface, to one M. Decraver, concerning the Preface and this unique copy.
