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JAMMES, Francis. Henri GEORGET, illustrator. ~ Pomme d’anis. Paris: [Nancy: Berger-Levrault for] Mercure de France [25 March], 1914.

First edition with Georget’s charming coloured illustrations.  more...

One of 300 copies, this one a regular copy..  see full details

£300

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BEISSIER, Fernand and Mario COSTA. ~ Histoire d’un Pierrot. Reproduction cinématographique de la pantomime musicale. Rome: [G. Pacca & Co, 1914].

The illustrated libretto accompanying the Italian silent film, made by Costa after Beisser’s pantomime play of the 1890s.  more...

Rare..  see full details

£100

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ALLARD, Roger. Luc-Albert MOREAU, illustrator. ~ Les Feux de la Saint-Jean. Poème orné de cinq dessins. Paris: Camille Bloch, 1920.

First edition, inscribed by Allard, illustrated throughout with Moreau’s Cubist-tinged female nudes.  more...

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£100

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FRANCE, Anatole. SIMÉON, illustrator. ~ Marguerite. Trente-cinq bois originaux. Paris: [Loches: Daigremont for] André Coq, 1920.

First edition in book form, one of 21 copies on japon impérial with the suite on chine, this copy with an additional drawing, printed for the publisher.  more...

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£150

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CHRISTIAN-LE-THÉLÉMITE. Chéri HÉROUARD, illustrator. ~ Angelicus et Pudica. Paris: Renaissance Universelle, [ 1921].

First edition, one of 540 copies.  more...

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£75

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(MARIANI). ROBIDA, Albert and Émilie ROBIDA, illustrator. ~ Le Château de la Grippe… illustré de quarante compositions en noir et en couleurs. Paris: [Mesnil-sur-l’Estrée: Firmin-Didot for] Henri Floury, 1904.

First edition, number 20 of 25 copies on japon of a total edition of 300.  more...

One of Mariani’s annuals extolling the virtues of his coca wine. This one is interesting for being lavishly illustrated by Albert Robida’s daughter, Émilie (born 1882). The final pages give a bibliographically-useful account of Mariani’s other publications..  see full details

£450

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BERNOUARD, François. Paul IRIBE, illustrator. ~ Le Co[n]valescent et la Berlue rayonnante orné de plusieurs dessins inédits de Monsieur Paul Iribe. Paris: [François Bernouard] à la belle Édition, 1917.

First edition, one of 365 copies.  more...

Verses written at the Front and from a military hospital..  see full details

£150

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TIELEMANS, Émile Henry. ~ Les Ex-libris d’Em. H. Tielemans. Brussels: Biblion, [ 1921].

First edition, the second of 5 collections of Tielemans’s iconic avant-garde bookplates, containing plates for himself, Marcel Wyseur, Étienne Rousseau, ‘H.  more...

E.T.’, Jeanne Coosemans, Anna Fondeville, F. Vanderspigel de Smet, Fernand Scouflare and Ania Letty..  see full details

£150

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(MARIANI). ‘BERTHEROY, Jean’ [pseudonym of Berthe-Corinne LE BARILLIER. Augustin POUPART, illustrator. ~ Cypsélos l’invincible. Conte grec. Paris: [Mesnil-sur-l’Estrée: Firmin-Didot for] Henri Floury, 1904.

First edition, number 2 of 25 copies on japon (of a total edition of 300) this copy for Prince Rolande Bonaparte, with an additional watercolour inserted.  more...

Part of the Mariani collection extolling the virtues of his coca wine. Rolande Bonaparte was a grandson of Lucien Bonaparte, Emperor Napoleon I's brother.

Author ‘Jean Bertheroy’ was in fact female writer Berthe-Corinne Le Barillier (1868-1927). She had become the first secretary to the jury of the Femina literary prize established also in 1904. This album contains a fine and striking engraved portrait of her..  see full details

£750

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(MARIANI) CLARÉTIE, Jules. Albert, ROBIDA, illustrator. ~ Explication. Paris: Librairie illustré, 1894.

First editions of two very scare annuals printed for Angelo Mariani, novelettes with a partially graphic narrative extolling the virtues of his wildly popular coca wine (Vin Mariani).  more...

Each copy here is number 38 of 50 copies on japon (of total editions of 500 copies). Mariani commissioned numerous bibliophilic productions from leading publishers and illustrators to promote his product. He had created his coca wine in 1863 and with an active content of around 6 milligrams per ounce it found enthusiastic drinkers all over the world, including Queen Victoria and Pope Leo XIII..  see full details

£500

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EGOROFF, Marie. ~ Neuf Dessins mystiques… Paris: Librairie des Sciences psychiques, 1911.

Madame Egoroff was reputed to make ‘automatic’ drawings under the direction of spirits.  more...

Little is known of her work, but she contributed illustrations to an edition of Pushkin in 1898..  see full details

£300

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HOUSSAYE, Arsène, editor. Maurice NEUMONT, illustrator. ~ Cantiques d’amour… Poèsies. Paris: G. Richard for Le Journal, Émile Bouchard, [ 1894].

First edition of this illustrated collection of 12 lightly erotic poems by Alexandre Dumas, Armand Silvestre, Catulle Mendès, Jean Richepin, André Theuriet and Robert de Montesquiou, among others.  more...

Each poem with large pictorial photogravure borders on two sides with a facsimile of each author’s signature..  see full details

£200

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VITTA, Émile. Adolphe WILLETTE and BOUTET DE MONVILLE, illustrator. ~ À travers un Vitrail. Poésies. Paris: [Schmidt for] Léon Vanier, 1892.

First edition, inscribed, with an additional note from the author on a pasted slip opposite one of the Willette illustrations: ‘Cette composition passe pour une des plus belles de Willette.  more...

Dans le 3e compartiment du triptyche l’Ange cache des plis de sa robe l’oeuvre de l’artist morte aux regards des critiques qui l’ont ignoré de son vivant’..  see full details

£200

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BARBEY D’AUREVILLY, Jules. ~ Le Bonheur dans le crime. Préface par Paul Festugière. [Evreux, Charles Hériseey], 1897

First edition with these plates, number 77 of 85 copies (’planches détruite’), subscriber’s name ‘Ed.  more...

de la Germanière’ added in manuscript. Le Bonheur dans le crime was the third of Barbey d’Aubervilly six novelettes (1871) gathered under the collective title Les Diaboliques (1874) in which Madameoiselle Hauteclaire Stassin, a ravishing beauty, expert in fencing falls in love with a count; the two hatch a plan to murder the count’s wife, whereafter they live happily ever after, without guilt. The edition includes a curious facsimile of an autograph letter by the author on his ‘Never More’ headed paper beginning: ‘A qui relié mon livre et lié mon coeur.’.  see full details

£300

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FRAGEROLLE, Georges. Georges AURIOL, illustrator. ~ L’Enfant-Dieu. Recueil de vieux noëls des pays de Champagne & de Lorraine. Restitués et mis en musique. Paris: Enoch & C[ompagn]ie and Ernest Flammarion, [ 1898].

First edition.  more...

Fragerolle had been Erik Satie’s co-pianist at the Chat Noir, composing most of the music for its revues. This is his delightful collection of old French Christmas carols, with ornaments to the wrapper, endpapers and text by Georges Auriol, also a member of the Chat Noir circle and friend of Satie. The wrapper, printed separately by Eugène Verneau and with trademark Auriol lettering, is particularly scarce..  see full details

£250

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ROSTAND, Edmond. ~ La Princesse Lointaine. Pièce en quatre actes, en vers représentée pour la première fois à Paris, le 5 Avril 1895, sur le théatre de la Renaissance. Illustrations… de MM. A.-F. Gorguet, Georges Rochegrosse, Lévy-Dhurmer. Paris: Pierre Lafitte & Compagnie, [ 1910].

First edition with these illustrations, number 57 of 60 copies on Japon.  more...

Dedicated to Sarah Bernhardt, who had played Mélisande in the 1895 Paris premiere. This is one of the seven rare volumes of the complete illustrated works of Rostand, issued by Lafitte in 1910-11, each issued as a limited edition of 60 copies..  see full details

£200

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PAILLERON, Édouard. ~ La Poupée… exemplaire unique. Paris: Imprimerie de “l’Illustration”, 1883.

First edition: A children’s story written for the author’s daughter and her doll: ‘Exemplaire unique’, but actually one of two recorded copies (the other in the Bibliothèque nationale).  more...

Pailleron was a prolific and successful literary figure in Paris, as co-director of the Revue des Deux mondes and author of many plays. The Bibliothèque nationale copy contains an inscription permitting the recipient (presumably the printer or editor) to print one more copy only (presumably this one). Several later editions followed, but we can find no more examples of the first. Young Marie-Louise Pailleron appears (with her brother) as the co-subject in John Singer Sargent’s first dual portrait, painted in 1880 (she later recorded that she made no less than 83 sittings for it)..  see full details

£400

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[CAMUSET, Georges]. Felicien ROPS, illustrator. ~ Les Sonnets du docteur. Paris: [Dijon: Darantière] chez la plupart des libraires, 1884.

First edition, rare, one of 350 copies on Hollande (of a total edition of 500).  more...

A series of witty sonnets by a physician and bon viveur on medical subjects: constipation, condoms, bandages, worms, venereal disease and death..  see full details

£400

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IBELS, Henry-Gabriel. ~ Les Demi-cabots, le café-concert, le cirque, les forains. Textes de Georges d’Esparbès, André Ibels, Maurice Lefèvre, Georges Montorgueil. Paris: [Evreux: Charles Hérissey for] G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, 1896.

First edition of this classic belle époque survey of the culture of the café-concert and the circus.  more...

This copy is number 52 of 100 on chine, with additional folding poster and plate at end, this copy also with an original signed ink and pastel drawing tipped to the front free endpaper inscribed: ‘Pour le bibliophile Edmond Fargeau. Hommage cordiale H.G. Ibels. Xbre 1910’. Ibels was one of the major commercial graphic artists of the period and a collaborator of Toulouse-Lautrec’s..  see full details

£1250

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MERCIER, Louis. Marcel ROUX, illustrator. ~ Lazare le Ressucité. Lyon: H. Lardanchet, 1908.

One of 250 copies on Hollande (after 50 on japon), this copy for Mademoiselle Ernestine Jetot.  more...

A troubled artist and illustrator, fervent and ascetic Catholic, Marcel Roux’s dark vision frequently dwells upon themes of temptation and sin..  see full details

£300

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