FIRST EDITION, EACH OF THE THREE PARTS SIGNED AND HAND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST, number 25 of 30 copies, each handcoloured by Madeleine Smets-Lefrancq.more...
An extraordinarily dramatic graphic interpretation of Revelation, with linocuts by the Franciscan monk and sceptic Fieullien (1903-1976), who had studied at l’Académie de Bruxelles under the Belgian painter Oswald Poreau. He worked in sculpture, stained glass and paint, but his best work was in his remarkable illustrated books, with their idiosyncratic lettering and unsettling (occasionally lurid) religious imagery..see full details
FIRST EDITION illustrated by Jouvancourt, printed on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion.more...
A collection of poems first published in 1862 Leconte de Lisle, leader of the Parnassian movement. In this Réunion edition, the poems are hand set in Deberny and Peignot types; with wood engravings by Jouvancourt (an artist of whom we know relatively little) with their strong black lines and simple forms, with a striking graphic quality. Number 27 of 400 copies on Johannot pur fil (total edition 420)..see full details
An urbane wartime short story, stylishly-illustrated by Lepape (son of Georges Lepape, who had worked for Vogue and the Ballet Russes). Number 22 of 46 copies on vélin ivoire with two suites of engravings (total edition 426)..see full details
Number 56 of 100 examples on pur fil du Marais, with an additional suite (total edition 176). An erotic book by the bohemian novelist and songwriter Mac-Orlan; illustrated in pochoir by Picart Le Doux, an impressionist artist who created washy and seductive night-scenes, most of which are depictions of prostitutes. He was well-known for his female nudes, was friends with Renoir, and also illustrated works by Verlaine and Baudelaire. He was best known as a tapestry designer..see full details
FIRST EDITION, this copy with a long presentation inscription by the author and artist dated 1970: ‘Bernard, À force / d’aimer la récréation, / j’organise mon coeur, / pour que la cloche / du commencement, / sonne au delà / de l’espace confine …’ A poetic essay with lithographed hadnwritten text and intriguingly ambiguous illustrations depicting wispy elemental figures.more...
The artist, Mathieu exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and Salon de la Jeune Sculpture. One of 1000 copies (there were also 15 hors commerce copies)..see full details
A series of neatly-coloured etchings by Lepape (prefaced by Cocteau)—stylish and leisurely scenes around Monte-Carlo, with people walking the streets, dining, playing tennis, gambling and roaming the beaches. The artist studied in France at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Art Students League, New York; he showed work in collective exhibitions such as Salon Comparaisons and Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’Eau in Paris. Number 95 of 100 copies (there were a further 10 hors commerce copies, total edition 110)..see full details
A collection of vignettes describing Parisian café society, this is one of Fargue’s last books before his death in 1947. Illustrated by Swiss-born artist Elisabeth-Mary Burgin, who made a name for herself with her drawings of Parisian beggars and the regulars in the cafés and bars around Montparnasse (Benezit). This is her only illustrated book. One of 200 copies on papier pur fil du Marais, (after 10 with a suite of engravings and an original drawing, another 10 with just a suite and 15 hors commerce. Total edition 235)..see full details
FIRST EDITION, with illustrations by Polish-born caricaturist Brunner.more...
This illustrated publication with its seedy depictions of early twentieth-century Amsterdam nightlife, successfully documents the indulgent and unsettling nature of the symbolist writer Lorrain’s comic decadent novella of 1897. One of 500 copies on papier de Lana (after 30 on rives, with a suite, 5 on japon and 15 reserved for the collaborators marked I to XV. Total edition 551)..see full details
1 OF 70 COPIES, this one unnumbered, but with plates in two states.more...
A large-format illustrated edition of the quintessential and much-published decadent novel of courtesan life in Alexandria, the illustrations typical of the work of Calbet (they had first appeared in the edition of 1923)..see full details
ONE OF SIXTY COPIES ONLY (all on Japon), this copy with an original drawing and copper plate.more...
Part of Javal et Bourdeaux’s lavish Rougon-Macquart series (which also included Nana, Germinal and La Terre), the plates by Dignimont and Courbouleix providing an appropriately gritty counterpart to the novel..see full details
ONE OF SIXTY COPIES ONLY (all on japon) with all the Vertès plates coloured (by crayon), presumably by the artist, a preliminary drawing and two additional suites (one by William Ablett).more...
Part of Javal et Bourdeaux’s lavish Rougon-Macquart series (which also included L’Assommoir, Germinal and La Terre)..see full details
Les Villages illusoires (1895), by Belgian symbolist Verhaeren, is one of two works (the other being Les Villes tentaculaires) expressing the writer’s growing concern for social problems based on the ‘illusory character’ of human perception. The colourful etchings accompanying the text are the most significant works by Van Santen, a painter and etcher of fragile constitution, who studied under Brussels engraver Jeff Codron. Number 155 on vélin d’Arches, (after 40 copies on japon impérial, 30 on japon and 20 on différents papiers réservés. Total edition 220). This copy contains two additional proofs..see full details
FIRST EDITION, the issue of 1942 (first impressions are dated 1936).more...
Number 32 of 35 copies on japon impérial, plus an additional suite of lithographs (there were a further 204 copies on papier de Hollande and 20 hors commerce). A beautifully-illustrated book of poems by esteemed poet and mystic Thompson, including his best-known poem, ‘The Hound of Heaven’. The illustrator, Maurice Denis had been a prominent figure in the period between Impressionism and Abstraction, forming Les Nabis in the 1890s with Vuillard, Bonnard, Ranson and Roussel, a group who saw themselves as prophets of the new art and who defined their work as a metaphorical creation of their ‘spirit.’ Though Les Nabis had largely disbanded by the 1920s, their credo aptly expresses the decorative and brightly coloured aspect of Denis’s illustrations for Thompson’s poems..see full details
FIRST EDITION, WITH TWO ORIGINAL SIGNED LITHOGRAPHS, presentation copy to the Parisian gallerists, Juliette and Paul Guillaume.more...
A selection of unpublished poems paired with two lithographs by cubist, Laurencin. This is a typical Bernouard production, complete with Paul Iribe’s rose motif to the upper cover. Number 46 of 100 copies on vergé d’Arches (total edition 151). .see full details
Magallon’s poetic tribute to an airman killed in action in 1918 had first appeared in 1921, this folio edition contains an exceptional Blake-inspired etching of an angel descending in the face of cannon-fire.more...
This copy number 18 of the tirage de tête of 26 copies (total edition 110)..see full details
This is a beautifully-illuminated edition, with brightly coloured borders and ornaments; thirteen chapters paired with thirteen suggestive plates representing a different god of Greek or Latin mythology. André Lambert (1884-1967) trained as a costume designer and had worked in Germany as an illustrator for Simplicissimus, developing a Beardsleyesque style, and later specialising in erotic art. Number 120 of 350 copies on vélin d’Arches (total edition 401)..see full details
