J.-H. ROSNY AÎNÉ

First edition printed in 130 numbered and nominative copies on handmade Rives laid paper.
The work illustrated with a frontispiece, 15 plates and 6 vignettes by Georges Leroux engraved by Raoul Serres.
Slipcase in poor condition with unskillful restorations.
Handsome copy.

Rare original lithograph in shades of grey and sepia, executed by Fernand Cormon for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 20 published in December 1898.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins, laid paper mounted on Japan paper, signed by the artist and dated in the plate, publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin, numbered deluxe edition stamp on the verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard captioned with the artist's name, the title, and an extract from the work.
Lithograph inspired by an extract from Vamireh, roman des temps primitifs by Joseph-Henri Rosny, reproduced on the tissue guard of the print.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which, unlike other journals such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards, were created specially by each artist for the journal. Thus 100 prints appeared in total, covering the major artistic movements of the late nineteenth century: Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelites, Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned 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 paper. Thick, silky, satined 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 medium for these very beautiful lithographs.
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 pasted on 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 complete work of art on the same level as the luxury illustrated 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.
A handsome copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on vergé paper de Rives, the only large paper copies.
A good copy.

first edition on common paper and published under the pseudonym of Enacryos.
Bradel binding in full navy blue, preserved covers.
An autograph signed by Rosny, under his pseudonym, to Jean Lahor.
A book with illustrations by Antoine Calbet, the inserts with a sanguineous sequel.

First Edition for which there is no mention of major papers.
Bound in half brown grief, back with five nerves set with double black lines, traces of friction on the back, when golden tail, flat marbled paper, and guards contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, binding time.
Signed autograph from the author to poet John Ott Rosati.

Third edition.
Binding Editor open cardboard decorated with floral motifs, smooth spine faded, threadbare caps, friction marks on the back.
Signed autograph from the author to poet John Ott: "... his old friend ..."
Illustration inset, pleasant inner state.
Complete copy of his Please insert mimeographed.

First edition, service de presse stamp on the back cover.
Deferential autograph inscription signed by J.H. Rosny aîné to Maurice Maeterlinck.
Spine slightly warped, minor stains of no consequence on the front cover.