172

GUÉRIN (Maurice de)

The item was sold for 6 951

Fees include commission and taxes.

Back to auction
GUÉRIN (Maurice de)

Prose poems. Preceded by a little letter on myths by Paul Valéry. Paris, A. Blaizot, 1928. In-4, turquoise-blue morocco, Jansenist, green morocco lining, wide border decorated with gold fillets, a red scroll, mosaic geometric motifs at the corners and gold garlands, blue fault guards, gold edges, untrimmed, cover, case (Ch. Septier).
Beautiful edition published after a typographic model by François-Louis Schmied, illustrated with compositions by Georges Barbier engraved on copper and printed
in colour.

Unique edition of 150

copies.

Copy including at the end of the volume one of the rare double suites on thin japanese of the illustrations, in black and in color (edition at 25

copies).

Beautiful copy in lined morocco and Septier mosaic

.

From the Étienne Beauvillain library, with ex-libris.