Stroobants

Rare first edition of the second volume of the Parnasse contemporain, featuring works by fifty-six poets, most of them previously unpublished, issued in twelve parts between 1869 and 1871.
Includes contributions by Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, Théodore de Banville, Théophile Gautier, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Louise Colet, José-Maria de Heredia, Sainte-Beuve, Leconte de Lisle, Catulle Mendès, Anatole France, Louisa Siefert, Sully Prudhomme, and Augustine-Malvina Blanchecotte...
Bradel binding in green forest morocco-backed boards with corners, smooth spine with central floral ornament and date at foot, comb-marbled endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, binding signed by Stroobants.
Monogrammed bookplate “B” pasted on a flyleaf.
A rare and very handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Full brown cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine, gilt date at foot, covers and spine preserved, bookplates pasted on one pastedown, contemporary binding signed in blind by Stroobants.
Two light dampstains to upper right corner of first cover and upper left corner of second cover.
Autograph inscription dated Brussels 1934 and signed by Paul Claudel to Gérard Bauër.
Provenance: from the libraries of Gérard Bauër and Jean-François Lemaire with their bookplates pasted on one pastedown.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half almond green cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron, date and double gilt fillet at foot, brown shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding signed in blind by Stroobants.
Handsome copy attractively bound.

Illustrated edition with 120 original drawings by Daniel Vierge, one of 100 numbered copies on China paper.
Half tawny morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with double gilt fillets decorated with double gilt compartments, the compartments enriched with mosaic morocco pieces in red, blue, brown and green, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved (front cover entirely sunned), top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed Stroobants.
Handsome copy in perfect condition.
The work is complete with the portrait of Daniel Vierge as frontispiece, engraved in mezzotint, and the "remarque" by Daniel Vierge on the half-title page.
Our copy includes a suite of four unpublished original watercolors by Daniel Vierge engraved as etchings by G. Noyon, here in three states including pure etching and proof with remarque.
At the end of the volume and following, the prospectus written by Edouard Pelletan is included.
Manuscript signature of Daniel Vierge below the justification page.

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.

New edition, with some parts in first edition as expanded with a preface, one of 30 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies after 6 on Japan paper.

 

Full chocolate brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, gilt roulettes on headcaps, quadruple black fillets framing the boards, black fleurons at corners, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, triple gilt fillets framing the pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, double gilt fillets on leading edges, top edge gilt on deckled edges, contemporary binding signed by Stroobants.

Bookplate pasted at head of one pastedown.

Very fine copy perfectly executed by Stroobants.

First printing of the illustrated edition. One of 100 deluxe copies on Japan or China paper, here on China paper No. XLIII numbered by hand and justified. General printing of 600 copies. 24 engravings in 3 states, line, in black, in colors, totaling 72 illustrations. The stones, as stipulated in the printing notice, were destroyed.
Contemporary half orange morocco binding with corners signed Strobants. Raised band spine decorated with mirror irons set in a succession of compartments, roulettes at head and tail. Top edge gilt. Covers and spine preserved. Some foxing on the title page and in the margins, but very rare.
Engraved armorial bookplate by Malatesta: Bibliothèque de Monsieur H. Del Monte.
Painter, engraver and illustrator, Alexandre Lunois remained renowned for his color lithographic washes. To interpret his own drawings, he employs an almost forgotten process, treating the stone with a brush dipped in lithographic ink, in other words like a wash. The textures, nuances, color contrasts obtained distinguish his style. The result is a contrasted and violent style, which perfectly illustrates orientalism, as seen in Fortunio, a true painter's book and one of his major productions. He delights in giving different states of his engravings whose deep blacks are remarkable. About an orientalist plate, Edmond de Goncourt notes in his journal: "A very remarkable plate is a lithograph by Lunois entitled Danseuses espagnoles dans la danse. A plate of the greatest character escaping Japanese imitation through the intensity of tones, the raw blue of the background, the yellow, the frank red, the blacks of nocturnal shadow in full figure."

The rare first edition.

Dark red morocco by Stroobants, the spine richly decorated with compartments and decorative tools in the Romantic style, date to foot of spine, triple gilt fillet frame to covers, gilt roulette frame to pastedowns, marbled endpapers, double gilt fillet to edges of covers, gilt roulette to headpiece, covers preserved, gilt edges.
With a frontispiece by Tony Johannot.
Autograph inscription signed by Alfred de Vigny to Madame de Fabricius, a friend of the author, close companion of Emile Deschamps and a regular at his salon.
Provenance : from the Grandsire collection.

A fine copy retaining its rare covers without any spotting, and in a superb binding.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Bradel binding in half caramel brown morocco, smooth spine very lightly browned, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding signed by Stroobants.
Some foxing affecting certain deckled edges, discreet printed bibliophile monogram at head of one endpaper.

First edition.
Bradel binding in half almond percale, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, hazel shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding signed by Stroobants.
Work illustrated with plates.
Engraved bookplate pasted on pastedown.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 275 numbered copies on Arches, the only deluxe copies.
Half blue-grey morocco binding, spine with five raised bands with minor tears, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed by Stroobants.
Signed autograph inscription by Vicomte de Reiset.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece and 28 plates.

MARINETTI Filippo Tommaso
Les Dieux s'en vont d'Annunzio reste [The Gods Are Leaving, D'Annunzio Remains]
Sansot, Paris 1906, 11,5 x 19 cm, contemporary half red morocco
First edition in French, for which there is no mention of grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Contemporary half ed morocco over marbled paper boards by Stroobants, spine in six compartments decorated with gilt spots and double gilt compartments with gilt typographic devices (slight insignificant rubbing to three bands), gilt fillet frame to boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Autograph inscription from Filippo-Tommaso Marinetti in French to the journalist and politician Eugène Lautier.
With ink drawings by Valeri. A very good copy in a nice binding.
$ 2 800

First edition on ordinary paper, with only 10 Holland copies printed on deluxe paper.
Bradel binding in half blue cloth, smooth spine, date at foot, marine shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding signed in blind by Stroobants.
Handsome copy.