Pierre de RONSARD

Rare original lithograph in crayon manner, executed by Félix Bracquemond for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 23 published in March 1899.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins, laid paper mounted on Japan paper, artist's initial and date in the plate, publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin, numbered luxury edition stamp on the reverse; engraving preceded by a tissue guard captioned with the artist's name, title, and a poem.
Lithograph inspired by a poem Les amours de Marie by Pierre de Ronsard, reproduced on the print's tissue guard.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May...

Rare original lithograph, executed by Félix Bracquemond for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 23 published in March 1899.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins, printed in blue ink, artist's initial and date 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 luxury edition stamp on the reverse, some foxing.
Lithograph inspired by a poem, Les amours de Marie, by Pierre de Ronsard.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consists of unpublished chromolithographs which, unlike other...

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with 24 phototype plates.
First cover marginally sunned with some light spotting, handsome interior condition.

Edition printed on laid paper and illustrated with a portrait of Pierre Ronsard by Orlande de Lassus.
Half brown shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt cartouches ornamented with gilt lyres, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some minor tears to leading edges, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Some foxing affecting the music plates at the end of the volume.

Fourteenth collected edition. “This edition, the nicest and most complete of the old editions of Ronsard, is richly illustrated with copper engravings,” (Seymour de Ricci, Éditions originales de Ronsard). Superb engraved title by Léonard Gaultier, the same as used for the collected edition of 1609, here in its second state. A small woodcut portrait of Muret in a medallion, half-page portrait of Richelieu, half-page portraits of Ronsard and Cassandre by Melland, half-page medallion portraits of Henri II, Charles IX, François Duc d'Anjou, Henri Duc de Guise, Anne de Joyeuse, Mary Stuart, the Duc d'Espernon, François II and Catherine de Medici, all engraved by Thomas...

Second edition reviewed, corrected and enlarged. Spine sunned, rare.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Revue des bibliothèques.
Lacking covers.