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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Oct 11 @ 13:00UTC+1
HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl.- A rebours. Illustrations de Auguste Leroux gravées à l'eau-forte par E. Decisy, sur bois par Clément. Paris, A. et F. Ferroud, 1920. In-8°. Relié par René Aussourd : plein maroquin vert olive foncé sertis de listels de maroq. brun ou carmin et de filets noirs, dos à 4 nerfs et caissons sertis comme les plats, remplis sertis d'un listel de maroq. brun et de filets dorés, tranches dorées, couv. et dos cons. Sous étui.
18 eaux-fortes dont le portrait de l'auteur en frontispice et 35 in texto, 1 en-tête de chapitre et 1 cul-de-lampe gravés sur bois (# Mahé II-414). Belle illustration à l'"esthétique décadente" touchant au fantastique voire l'érotico-morbide et dont certaines planches semblent avoir été inspirées par Gustave Moreau ou Rops.
Tirage à 1.220 ex. num., un des 100 sur japon impérial ou vélin d'Arches (3e pap., n° 174 sur japon impérial) accompagnés de :
- 1 suite avec remarques, avant la lettre de l'imprimeur, sur japon impérial.
Exemplaire enrichi de :
- 1 des 25 suites (n° 10) des eaux-fortes et aquatintes de Henry Chapront conçues pour cet ouvrage, tirées en couleurs ou monochromie : titre ("XI images gravées par Henry Chapront tirées en couleurs à 25 exemplaires, n° "10", se vend à la Librairie A. Blaizot, 26 rue Le Peletier à Paris", tiré en bleu sur papier orange, signé à la plume par l'artiste et relié in fine) et 10 hors-texte légendés à la pointe sur papier vélin,
- du tirage avant la lettre du titre de cette suite, sur vélin, signé au crayon vert.
Bon exempalire enrichi de cette belle et rare suite s'intégrant parfaitement à l'ouvrage, due à Henry Chapront (Rochefort 1876-1965 Dordogne). 560 700 Euros
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