Gaston VUILLIER

First edition illustrated with 19 photogravure plates on Arches paper, and numerous in-text vignettes also in photogravure. Printed on strong glazed laid paper. Some music plates.
Publisher's full navy long-grain morocco binding. Ornamental title on spine and upper cover, special tools. Gilt edges. Sort of non-woven wallpaper on covers evoking fabric. Paper in perfect freshness. Light traces of rubbing. Spine darkened.
Superb deluxe publisher's binding of this abundantly illustrated monograph on dance. The work forms one of the best references on the history of dance.

Edition illustrated with 31 original compositions by Gaston Vuillier etched by Omer Bouchery, one of 100 numbered copies on Japan paper containing the etchings in two states.
Full brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with triple compartments as well as gilt fillets, gilt date at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, frame of quadruple gilt fillets on covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, frame of gilt dentelle on pastedowns, double gilt fillets on leading edges, covers preserved, top edge gilt, superb full morocco binding signed by Blanchetière.
Superb copy.
Copy established in a very handsome full morocco binding by Blanchetière.

First edition illustrated with 4 watercolors, 19 photographs and 70 wood engravings, 17 of which are full-page.
Publisher's binding. Half cream morocco-grained calf. Boards covered with orientalist-decorated paper in gold and cream. The 2 upper corners slightly bumped. Very handsome copy, with immaculate paper of luminous whiteness, on thick coated paper.
Travel account by the draftsman, traveler and ethnographer Gaston Vuillier.