Sophia
Exempalire slightly warped.
Signed autograph of Pierre Emmanuel Jean Bardet co-founder of the editions of Seuil: "... who has always welcomed me so friendly in this house which is mine ..."
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First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Small foxing on covers marginally and slightly sunned, one joint cracked and glued down to foot, a small tear to head of spine.
Illustrated, as frontispiece, with a drawing by Etienne Dinet.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Etienne Dinet to Georges Rochegrosse : "A G. Rochegrosse cordial souvenir de son vieil ami."
First edition. Pre-original edition of Considérations sur la mythologie Grecque by André Gide.
Other contributions by Jacques Rivière, Georges Simon, André Lhote, Paul Claudel, Albert Thibaudet.
With the NRF subscription bulletin, handsome copy of one of the first issues of the most famous French literary review.
New illustrated edition 300 numbered copies printed, ours on marble Vellum paper. The book is embellished with 50 drawings in color by Pablo Roig and decorated with a frame in the Art Nouveau style by Riom.
Full brown shagreen, the spine sunned in five compartments completely blindtooled from half circle embellished with golden carnations, fillets by cold soldering outline the raised band, date and place of publication to foot, covers are completely framed with a grid pattern of blindtooled fillets forming decorative compartments in their center a golden hoop, the large plate achieved by Saint-André in the center of the first chiseled cover in a sunken Andalusian pattern representing “golden roots surrounding a phantom tree like in the novel, of P. Louys, the women are surrounded by a phantom man” in the double golden frame, signed by the artist on the outside of the plate, golden wheels outline the headband and the spine head, the end pages and the fly pages of silk with a painted rose pattern by Saint- André, the golden fillets and the wheels and the pattern incised in emerald morocco and garnet in frames the end pages, the fly pages doubled with paper in a grey and orange floral pattern, the covers preserved, gilt edges. The slipcover is covered in silk to give the effect of iridescence trimming in brown shagreen. Binding by Noulhac in collaboration with Saint-André.
Manuscript note by Saint-André: this binding was probably presented at the Salon of French artists at the Grand Palais Beaux-Arts at the Champs-élysées it was probably not submitted to the competition and to the members of the jury. Moreover, a note on the manuscript written by the artist on a broad-sheet explains the meaning of the central pattern of the first cover. Very light repair on the foot of a joint.
Exceptional Andalusian inspired Art Nouveau binding presented at the Salon of French artists.