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COURBOULEIX Léon (1887-1972) - FLAUBERT Gustave (1821- 1880)
Estimate1 200 - 1 500 €
COURBOULEIX Léon (1887-1972) - FLAUBERT Gustave (1821- 1880)
Légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier [Paris, circa 1940], modern illustrated book with two autograph manuscripts. In-4, 36 ff. Full stiff white vellum, two covers and spine enriched with original drawings by Gaston HOFFMANN (painter and illustrator born in 1883) [the upper cover illustrates the summary of the work as given by Flaubert: "the story of St Julien l'Hospitalier, as it is found on a stained glass window in my country". It is indeed a stained glass scene showing Christ carrying away St Julien, set in a neo-gothic armorial frame| the lower plate is decorated in its centre with a composition encircled by thorns illustrating St
Julien carrying a rock at arm's length and looking towards a church at the top of the composition] | spine illustrated with a cathedral statue of Saint Julian under the handwritten title in black ink| red bookmark, cover and spine preserved, gilt marbled paper case (Adrien Lavaux).
Beautiful printed edition illustrated with etchings by Léon COURBOULEIX of one of Flaubert's Three Tales, "a little medieval nonsense", as he liked to call it.
One of 285 on hand-made Auvergne paper (n° 70) signed by the illustrator under the proof. 3 plates outside the text and 41 illustrations in the text. Cover preserved with engraved portrait of Flaubert.
All pages are framed with gilt illumination and the text imitates gothic writing and uses red lettering.
Enriched with an original sanguine signed by Courbouleix (one of the out-of-text plates) representing a hunter in the forest.
Uncommon neo-gothic copy, well enriched.
Attached :
- Autograph manuscript entitled De l'état de l'église en Gaule au VIème siècle, 2 pp. in-fol. in brown ink on paper. Set of historical notes.
- Autograph manuscript entitled De Divinatione, 2 pp. in-fol. in brown ink on paper. Set of notes relating to the reading of Cicero.
Most of the passages quoted in Latin ("if the Pythia no longer speaks...", "Cyrus had dreamed...", "the dream of the Arcadians...", etc.) are translated and located with the reference of their chapter. Two have remained in Latin, captioned opposite: "extra natural lucidity of the dying", "the spirit of man, outside of man".
PROVENANCE Bibliothèque Bernard Le Dosseur (ex-libris)| Franklin-Grout-
Flaubert sale, Antibes, April 1931.
Légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier [Paris, circa 1940], modern illustrated book with two autograph manuscripts. In-4, 36 ff. Full stiff white vellum, two covers and spine enriched with original drawings by Gaston HOFFMANN (painter and illustrator born in 1883) [the upper cover illustrates the summary of the work as given by Flaubert: "the story of St Julien l'Hospitalier, as it is found on a stained glass window in my country". It is indeed a stained glass scene showing Christ carrying away St Julien, set in a neo-gothic armorial frame| the lower plate is decorated in its centre with a composition encircled by thorns illustrating St
Julien carrying a rock at arm's length and looking towards a church at the top of the composition] | spine illustrated with a cathedral statue of Saint Julian under the handwritten title in black ink| red bookmark, cover and spine preserved, gilt marbled paper case (Adrien Lavaux).
Beautiful printed edition illustrated with etchings by Léon COURBOULEIX of one of Flaubert's Three Tales, "a little medieval nonsense", as he liked to call it.
One of 285 on hand-made Auvergne paper (n° 70) signed by the illustrator under the proof. 3 plates outside the text and 41 illustrations in the text. Cover preserved with engraved portrait of Flaubert.
All pages are framed with gilt illumination and the text imitates gothic writing and uses red lettering.
Enriched with an original sanguine signed by Courbouleix (one of the out-of-text plates) representing a hunter in the forest.
Uncommon neo-gothic copy, well enriched.
Attached :
- Autograph manuscript entitled De l'état de l'église en Gaule au VIème siècle, 2 pp. in-fol. in brown ink on paper. Set of historical notes.
- Autograph manuscript entitled De Divinatione, 2 pp. in-fol. in brown ink on paper. Set of notes relating to the reading of Cicero.
Most of the passages quoted in Latin ("if the Pythia no longer speaks...", "Cyrus had dreamed...", "the dream of the Arcadians...", etc.) are translated and located with the reference of their chapter. Two have remained in Latin, captioned opposite: "extra natural lucidity of the dying", "the spirit of man, outside of man".
PROVENANCE Bibliothèque Bernard Le Dosseur (ex-libris)| Franklin-Grout-
Flaubert sale, Antibes, April 1931.