Auguste LEPÈRE

Complete collection of 24 issues and 18 fascicules of this literary review animated by numerous poets.
Contributions by Paul Fort, Léon Vérane, Paul Jamot, Gaston Foubert, Germaine Lepage, René Duart, René Maublanc, Mercutio, Roger Vailland, Vincent Muselli, Georges Delaw, Touny-Léris, Paul Neveux, Max Buffenoir, Adolphe Willette, A.M. Gossez, Marcel Sézanne, Emile Sedeyn, Roger Lecomte, Théotime...
Illustrations by Georges Delaw, Auguste Lepère, André-Edouard Marty, Adolphe Willette, Léon Bellot, Maurice Louvet, Edmond Chauvet, Eugène Bourgouin, Robert Coutin, Claude Renard, Pierre Subtil, Denise Hubrecht-Petitjean,
Handsome and rare complete set including issue N°10-11 entirely devoted to French Haïkaï.
We include a visiting card from René Druart on which he has added a few manuscript words as well as an autograph letter signed and dated January 4, 1924 on letterhead of the review "Le Pampre" also by René Druart.

Edition illustrated with 41 original etchings by Auguste Lepère, including a frontispiece, 20 headpieces, 20 tailpieces as well as 20 historiated initials printed in two colors
The work is printed in 250 numbered copies on vélin du Marais justified by the publisher.
Half chocolate brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of pebbled paper, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges, contemporary binding signed by Stroobants.
Some minor foxing affecting mainly the last leaves at head.
Handsome copy perfectly established.

Rare original lithograph printed in colors, executed by Auguste Lepère for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 10 published in February 1898.
One of 50 deluxe copies printed on Japan paper with wide margins, publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in lower margin, numbered stamp of the deluxe edition on verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard captioned with the artist's name, title and a poem.
Lithograph inspired by a poem by Jean Richepin, En ramant, reproduced on the print's tissue guard.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consists of unpublished chromolithographs which, unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards, were created specially by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appear in total, covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelites, Orientalists and Belle Epoque. Each issue of four prints is printed in 2000 copies sold at 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also provides a confidential deluxe printing: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F.
This print of handsome format is superbly printed on the most prestigious of papers: Japan. Thick, silky, satiny and pearlescent, it contributes to making each page a work in its own right. Its quality of ink absorption and its affinity with colors also make it the ideal support for these very beautiful lithographs.
The interest of French collectors for artistic posters intensifies at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne, to qualify this fever invents the term "affichomanie". The poster, originally popular and posted in the streets of the capital, then becomes an art object and its ephemeral support becomes precious and devoted to conservation.
Piazza decides to remove the poster from its advertising vocation and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the illustrated deluxe book. He thus composes a prestigious collection of entirely original works, by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure, Eugène Grasset, Henri Detouche, Emile Berchmans, Louis Rhead, Gaston de Latenay, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Gustave-Max Stevens, Charles Doudelet, Hans Christiansen, Henri Fantin-Latour, Steinlen, Ibels, Engels, Willette, Henri Meunier, Evenepoël, Bellery-Desfontaines, Charles Léandre, etc.
Handsome copy.

Rare original lithograph, executed by Auguste Lepère for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 10 published in February 1898.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins, artist's signature and date in the plate, publisher's blind stamp representing a child's profile in lower margin, laid down on a sheet of laid paper with on verso the numbered stamp of the deluxe issue, pale marginal foxing, tiny corner lack, a small dampstain and a tear both in margin not touching the engraving.
Lithograph inspired by a poem by Jean Richepin, En ramant.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consists of unpublished chromolithographs which, unlike other reviews such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards, were created specially by each artist for the review. Thus 100 prints appeared in total, covering the major artistic movements of the end of the 19th century: Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelites, Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints is printed in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also provides a confidential deluxe printing: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F.
This print of handsome format is superbly printed on one of the most prestigious papers: China paper. "Despite all its qualities, China paper, too inconsistent, owes its reputation, not to its own beauty, but indeed to its particular affinities with printing ink. Its texture, smooth and soft together, is more apt than any other to receive a beautiful printing. This property makes China paper sought after for printing engravings..." (Anatole France).
The interest of French collectors in artistic posters grew at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne, to qualify this fever, invented the term "affichomanie". The poster, originally popular and posted in the streets of the capital, then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and destined for preservation.
Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising vocation and elevate it to the rank of a work of art in its own right on the same level as the illustrated deluxe book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works, by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure, Eugène Grasset, Henri Detouche, Emile Berchmans, Louis Rhead, Gaston de Latenay, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Gustave-Max Stevens, Charles Doudelet, Hans Christiansen, Henri Fantin-Latour, Steinlen, Ibels, Engels, Willette, Henri Meunier, Evenepoël, Bellery-Desfontaines, Charles Léandre, etc.
Handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with fifty-nine engravings on copper and wood by Auguste Lepère, one of 220 numbered copies on pure Arches laid paper with the Nantes watermark, the only issue, this one printed specially for M. Join-Lambert.
Full tawny calf binding, spine with five raised bands, date at foot, boards richly decorated with a broad design of compartments, interlacing and shells inlaid with green, mahogany and black calf in the Renaissance taste, silk moiré doublures framed with seven gilt fillets, endpapers of matching silk, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, slipcase with rubbed and peeling headcaps, Art Nouveau binding signed with the monogram DLR at foot of first board.
Our copy is enhanced with one of the destroyed wood-engraved plates from the first series "Rue des Barres - Rue Grenier sur l'eau - Sortie de l'exposition" given to the Nantes museum.
Rare and very handsome copy perfectly executed in an elegant binding with Art Nouveau decoration.

Rare catalog, printed on laid to very small numbers, the exhibition of drawings and etchings of Auguste Lepère presented at Edmond Sagot Gallery from 1 to 7 December 1909.
Binding full cartonnage flexible vellum, smooth back mute, boards with stains and stings, beautiful interior condition.
Rare.

Complete collection in volume of the magazine L'image, published between 1896 and 1897. 12 issues published, well complete of its copy number, enriched by an exceptional autograph dedication of the author of the directors of publication Tony Beltrand, Auguste Lepère, Leon Ruffe, Jules Rais , to Monsieur Floury, the publisher of the magazine. Personal copy of the editor of the magazine, Henri Floury (handwritten in pencil repeated several times in the lower margin of the inset "QUOTE THE MENTION").
Well complete covers illustrated at the end of the volume, made by masters of the time (Toulouse-Lautrec, Alfons Mucha).
(LUXURY EDITION TAKEN 100 EXAMPLES ON CHINA containing a separate print on China of all the engravings and smokes of all the plates before the text, one of the 12 copies on China of the number-copy ???)