Ernest LA JEUNESSE

First edition, complete with all 12 issues of this luxurious and short-lived review founded and directed by Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, one of the exceedingly rare copies on japon, the only deluxe paper, with four states of the colour engravings.

Bound in half sand-coloured cloth, morocco lettering pieces, marbled paper boards, spines and wrappers preserved for each issue, a fine copy with wide margins.

Our copy indeed contains the four colour states reserved for the deluxe issue, printed on various papers, of each of the 23 photogravures in Arts & Crafts, Symbolist, Renaissance, Art Nouveau, and Classical styles, after Maxwell Armfield, Henri

Autograph postcard signed by Ernest La Jeunesse addressed to Emile Straus: "Je crois, mon vieux, que vous aimerez cette carte-là. A vous, Ernest La Jeunesse" ["I believe, my old friend, that you will like this card. Yours, Ernest La Jeunesse"]
A great enthusiast of epistolary art, Emile Straus founded in 1899 La Carte postale illustrée, the bulletin of the association he had just launched, the International Poste-Carte Club.

Autograph postcard signed by Ernest La Jeunesse addressed to Emile Straus: "Voici, cher ami, avec mes meilleurs sentiments. Annoncez des séries napoléoniennes, républicaines et autres fantaisies socialistes, votre Ernest La Jeunesse" ["Here, dear friend, with my best regards. Announce Napoleonic series, republican and other socialist fantasies, your Ernest La Jeunesse"]
A great enthusiast of epistolary art, Emile Straus founded in 1899 La Carte postale illustrée, the bulletin of the association he had just launched, the International Poste-Carte Club.