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James TISSOT

La Sainte Bible. Ancien testament

M. de Brunoff & Cie, Paris 1904, In Folio (34x42,5cm), 2 volumes reliés.

TISSOT James. La Sainte Bible. Ancien testament [The Holy Bible. The Old Testament]
M. de Brunoff & Cie, Paris 1904, In Folio (34 x 42,5 cm), 2 volumes, publisher's binding
The first edition, published in 560 copies, this one of 40 copies of the “portrait” printing on marbled paper, the leading copies after 20 on Japon paper.
This copy has the intaglio portrait of Tissot, a set of heliogravure proofs of all the hors-text illustrations, a second state of proofs heightened with colors by hand of all the hors-text illustrations, and a third, not proofs, of all the finished hors-texte illustrations in colors, all on marbled paper.
Publisher's half-vellum over green cloth, spine with arabesques and ink title, a tiny tear without lack to foot of spine of one volume, occasional rubbing and spots to one volume. The work has 360 illustrations to text and 40 color hors-texte illustrations. A rare and handsome edition of the “Tissot Bible”, an emblematic book of British Orientalism, whose drawings were made after a revelation that the painter had in 1885 after a visit to the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris. This vision led him to abandon his full life as a painter and go on pilgrimage instead (in 1886-87 and 1889) to the holy sights of Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
A superb copy of this masterful work. 

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