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First edition of this exhibition plate is being held at the Museum of Decorative Arts, Marsan pavilion at the Louvre Museum from May to July, 1938.
Signed autograph Edouard Vuillard to a friend: "To my friend Jiji that the mistake (the only one) of Amier too my painting."
illustrated pamphlet 8 reproductions of works of Edouard Vuillard.
An annotation in blue ballpoint pen on the sidelines of the description of the thirty-ninth work described traces of vertical folds on the first board.

Edition gathering numerous unpublished texts by several authors: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Jules Janin, Charles Nodier, Schiller, etc.
Strictly contemporary Romantic binding in full cherry calf, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt and blind fillets, blind fleurons, a gilt arabesque at center, gilt dentelles at head and foot, boards framed with a black fillet, a wide floral dentelle stamped in blind and gilt corner ornaments, gilt dentelle framing the doublures, headcaps and board edges highlighted with gilt roulette, all edges gilt.
The work is illustrated with eight plates after T. Lawrence, J. Boaden, J. Wood, J. Martin, E. F. Pastorini, J. Hayes, J. P. Davis...

First edition.
Full ochre cloth binding, one joint cracked at foot, headcaps damaged, small lacks to spine, corners very bumped, lacks to boards and surface wear, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Albéric Second and Marie Ferrié among others.
8-page journal extensively illustrated with woodcuts by the greatest artists of the time.