Carlos SCHWABE, Léon RUDNICKI
L'effort. La Madone. - L'antéchrist. - L'immortalité. - La fin du monde
Société d'édition des bibliophiles contemporains|Paris 1894|22 x 29 cm|relié
L'Effort. La Madone. – L'Antéchrist. – L'Immortalité. – La Fin du monde
Full brown shagreen binding, spine with gilt compartments adorned with gilt borders, gilt roll-tooling on the spine-ends, small signs of rubbing on the spine, boards decorated with triple gilt fillet framing as well as gilt decorative tools as a reminder of the clasps on medieval works, marbled endpapers, preserved illustrated covers and spine, floral gilt motifs to the upper and lower leading edges, contemporary binding.
The beautiful cover, the half title pages, as well as the nominative page, were entirely illustrated by Léon Rudnicki and colored by stencil.
La Madone is illustrated on each page using color lithography by Alexandre Lunois (17 compositions in total, of which the first is full-page).
L'Antéchrist decorated by Eugène Courbouin with 38 outline illustrations painted with watercolors, of which the first is full-page.
L'Immortalité is illustrated by 31 floral compositions colored by stencil on the line by Carlos Schwabe, with the exception of 10 leaves engraved by Massé.
La Fin du Monde is illustrated by 47 black die stamp drawings by Alexandre Séon.
Splendid Symbolist and Art Nouveau work designed by Octave Uzanne.
Société d'édition des bibliophiles contemporains,
Paris 1894, 22 x 29 cm, full shagreen
First edition printed in 180 numbered copies on Arches paper and adorned with original Symbolist illustrations and Art Nouveau by Léon Rudnicki, Alexandre Lunois, Carlos Schwabe and Alexandre Séon, our copy was printed especially for Louis Bourdery.Paris 1894, 22 x 29 cm, full shagreen
Full brown shagreen binding, spine with gilt compartments adorned with gilt borders, gilt roll-tooling on the spine-ends, small signs of rubbing on the spine, boards decorated with triple gilt fillet framing as well as gilt decorative tools as a reminder of the clasps on medieval works, marbled endpapers, preserved illustrated covers and spine, floral gilt motifs to the upper and lower leading edges, contemporary binding.
The beautiful cover, the half title pages, as well as the nominative page, were entirely illustrated by Léon Rudnicki and colored by stencil.
La Madone is illustrated on each page using color lithography by Alexandre Lunois (17 compositions in total, of which the first is full-page).
L'Antéchrist decorated by Eugène Courbouin with 38 outline illustrations painted with watercolors, of which the first is full-page.
L'Immortalité is illustrated by 31 floral compositions colored by stencil on the line by Carlos Schwabe, with the exception of 10 leaves engraved by Massé.
La Fin du Monde is illustrated by 47 black die stamp drawings by Alexandre Séon.
Splendid Symbolist and Art Nouveau work designed by Octave Uzanne.
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