Iconographie de A. Willette
Paul Beuve. A[dolphe] Willette (artist, 1857 – 1926). Iconographie de A. Willette (De 1861 A 1909). Paris: Charles Bosse, 1909. Limited edition, No. 94 of 174 numbered copies on Arches paper, from a total limitation of 200.
Small quarto. (6), viii, 81pp. Illustrated with 7 hors-texte heliogravure and copperplate engraved plates (5 in color), 13 text vignettes, (3 in color), 1 monochrome illus. after Rouveyre printed on brown paper, and 3 additional color plates. Bound in green quarter morocco over mottled paper boards, titles in gilt to spine, five raised bands, marbled endleaves. With pochoir plate of Willette’s Chasseur de Vincennes engraved by Devanbez, and an illustration after Willette’s Marianne et L’Ours du Nord laid-in. Text in French.
From the collection of renowned Parisian publisher and bibliophile Edouard Champion, with his numbered catalogue ticket to front pastedown.
Sunned to spine; extremities rubbed and bumped; light toning, occasional edge tears. Very good. NPD-537. Item #537Price: $750.00