Étienne DINET

Rare original color lithograph, executed by Etienne Dinet for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 13 published in May 1898.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins, artist's signature in the plate, publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin, numbered stamp of the deluxe edition on the verso, slight trace of the stamp from the preceding engraving on the recto; engraving preceded by a tissue guard captioned with the artist's name, the title, and a text.
Lithograph inspired by an extract from Eugène Fromentin, reproduced on the tissue guard of the print.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 189

Rare original lithograph, executed by Etienne Dinet for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 13 published in May 1898.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins, artist's signature in the plate, publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin, mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered stamp of the deluxe edition on the verso, pale marginal foxing.
Lithograph inspired by an extract from one of Eugène Fromentin's travel accounts.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which, unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres

Illustrated edition with 51 original colour compositions by Etienne Dinet, one of 60 copies on Japan paper, ours specially printed for the bookbinder René Aussourd, containing, at the end, a second state of the engravings in black.
Full brown morocco binding, smooth spine, gilt name of the illustrator at foot of spine, gilt dots on boards decorated with a wide blind-stamped border, border of chocolate brown morocco fillet on marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, following endpapers of marbled paper, all edges gilt, covers and spine preserved, contemporary unsigned binding but attributable to René Aussourd.
Some foxing to verso of the last black engraving of the suite.
Compl

First edition, one of 800 numbered copies on B.F.K velin.
Work illustrated with sixteen colour compositions sometimes enhanced with gold, including 25 full-page by the Orientalist painter Etienne Dinet, ornamentation and decoration by Mohammed Racim.
Binding in full red morocco, spine in four compartments enhanced with gilt stippling and richly decorated with listels in panels with inlaid lilies in the corners and Moorish mosaic motifs in green and tan morocco, date at the foot, boards richly decorated with a large frame of black morocco listel and gilt fillets and stippling, important Moorish-inspired motifs in green morocco stamped with black arabesques, gilt dots, gilt fers-de-l