George BARBIER
Le Bonheur du jour ou Les Grâces à la Mode
[The Pleasure of the Day, or The Fashionable Graces]
Chez Meynial|Paris 1920-1924|44.50 x 31 cm|en feuilles sous couverture de l'éditeur
First edition complete with its 21 color copper-engravings and pochoirs by H. Reidel colored after the drawings of George Barbier: one on the cover, one on the title, 3 in the text and 16 plates. The work was printed with 300 copies, all printed on vellum paper.
Embossed stamp in the bottom right of the title page.
Our copy is presented in a blue calf custom slipcase, fans-pattern paper boards, title piece in blue calf and titled in palladium in the center of the first board; lambskin velvet lining, slipcase signed by Thomas Boichot.
Rare and superb copy, complete with all its plates, of this magnificent and monumental Art Deco work that required four years of work.
Embossed stamp in the bottom right of the title page.
Our copy is presented in a blue calf custom slipcase, fans-pattern paper boards, title piece in blue calf and titled in palladium in the center of the first board; lambskin velvet lining, slipcase signed by Thomas Boichot.
Rare and superb copy, complete with all its plates, of this magnificent and monumental Art Deco work that required four years of work.
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