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Les Maîtres de l'Affiche – imprimerie Chaix | Paris 1896 | plate: 29 x 39.9 cm | frame: 38 x4 3.5 cm | framed lithograph poster on vélin fin paper
NB: The poster is sold framed, but would have to be shipped without the frame.
Edition of the year of the first edition, statement of 17th thousand.
Spine slightly sunned.
Autograph inscription signed by Alphonse Narcisse to madame André Morice.
Second edition, printed in a small number of copies on Hollande laid paper.
3/4 red morocco, five raised bands-spine, gilt date at foot. Slight, superficial fading to spine, marbled paperboards, pebbled flyleaves and pastedowns, original covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, A finely executed, unsigned binding from the late 19th to early 20th century.
Provenance: from the library of Simone and André Maurois, with their engraved bookplate on front pastedown.
Signed and inscribed copy by Paul Verlaine to the opera singer Marie-Blanche Vasnier : "A Madame Vasnier, hommage respectueux. P. Verlaine." [To Madame Vasnier, with respectful homage. P...
New illustrated edition with 232 figures, principally by Borel. Volume XIV contains an additional suite by Moreau, a suite by Marillier and another anonymous suite. Copy on vellum paper, the figures on heavy vellum. At the end of the publisher's notice, a leaf with the price of works: the 20 volumes in-18, fine paper, in wrappers with 18 engravings...30Fr. The same with 212 engravings, in wrappers...60Fr. The same, 17 volumes, deluxe vellum paper, figures from first proofs...120Fr. The volumes may be purchased separately by works. While at Princeton University and the Royal Library of Denmark one finds only the edition in 20 volumes with 18 engravings, this copy proves more desirable in...
First collective edition, one of the 23 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma Navarre, the only deluxe copies ("grands papiers").
Rare and very nice copy.
Original color lithograph printed on fine laid paper. Dry stamp of the printer at bottom right of the plate.
A few tiny pinholes at the four corners and in the upper margin of the poster, without consequence.
Superb French monthly publication, Maîtres de l'Affiche, appeared between 1895 and 1900 on the initiative of Jules Chéret.
Each issue of the review includes four posters reproduced in bell format and in chromolithography, each presenting a dry stamp of authentication.
Very handsome copy of this poster by the English painter Maurice Greiffenhagen for the review Illustrated Pall Mall Budget.
