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SCHWABE Carlos (1866-1926) - MÉTIVET Lucien (1863-1932) - ZOLA Emile (1840
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SCHWABE Carlos (1866-1926) - MÉTIVET Lucien (1863-1932) - ZOLA Emile (1840-1902)
Le Rêve. Illustrations by Carloz Schwabe and L. Métivet
Paris, Marpon et Flammarion, [1892]. In-4 (290 x 213 mm), 335 pp.
Pinkish beige morocco, first cover decorated with a mosaic in sky blue and red morocco with pyrographic and silver ornaments representing a large cross on which lilies are climbing and around which birds are flying, mosaic and silver decorations on the second plate and the titled spine, large gilt lace inside, mauve silk lining and endpapers embroidered with purple and silver bouquets, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved, flap folder and titled ribbed case with mention "Unique copy" (R. Wiener, in Nancy).
First illustrated edition, decorated with vignettes and full-page compositions.
Limited edition of 30 copies, numbered and initialled by the publisher, on Japon paper (this one not numbered).
Illustrator Carlos Schwabe's copy, printed in part on Japan paper with pages 65-128 on publisher's paper. This copy was given by Schwabe to the bookbinder René Wiener, with an autograph letter on the false title: "Dear Sir, I could only get this copy from the publisher. As the only copy left to him (as it is not complete [he must refer to the pages on edition paper], he could not put it on sale) is due to me, you cannot refuse to accept it with my best feelings. O what regrets - great regrets for this book that I hoped to make great. Carlos Schwabe."
2 leaflets from the René Wiener stationery company are included in the copy.
VERY NICE SINGLE EXAMPLE SUPERBLY BINDED by the leader of the Nancy School.
PROVENANCE René Wiener (bookplate pastedown)| William F. Gable Library (bookplate pastedown).
REFERENCE Binding reproduced in: Art de France, 1961, art. by Jacques Guignard on the "talking" binding and the Nancy School| "[...] The illustration of
Rêve remains one of the major works of Symbolism: the experimental theme of the novel as well as the confrontation of Zola and Schwabe, made it the place of a representation of the aesthetic and intellectual conflicts of the time, opposing naturalism and idealism." Presentation of the exhibition Symbolism and Naturalism: Carlos Schwabe, illustrator of Zola's
Dream, Musée d'Orsay 1994.
(Binding soiled with slightly split spines).
Le Rêve. Illustrations by Carloz Schwabe and L. Métivet
Paris, Marpon et Flammarion, [1892]. In-4 (290 x 213 mm), 335 pp.
Pinkish beige morocco, first cover decorated with a mosaic in sky blue and red morocco with pyrographic and silver ornaments representing a large cross on which lilies are climbing and around which birds are flying, mosaic and silver decorations on the second plate and the titled spine, large gilt lace inside, mauve silk lining and endpapers embroidered with purple and silver bouquets, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved, flap folder and titled ribbed case with mention "Unique copy" (R. Wiener, in Nancy).
First illustrated edition, decorated with vignettes and full-page compositions.
Limited edition of 30 copies, numbered and initialled by the publisher, on Japon paper (this one not numbered).
Illustrator Carlos Schwabe's copy, printed in part on Japan paper with pages 65-128 on publisher's paper. This copy was given by Schwabe to the bookbinder René Wiener, with an autograph letter on the false title: "Dear Sir, I could only get this copy from the publisher. As the only copy left to him (as it is not complete [he must refer to the pages on edition paper], he could not put it on sale) is due to me, you cannot refuse to accept it with my best feelings. O what regrets - great regrets for this book that I hoped to make great. Carlos Schwabe."
2 leaflets from the René Wiener stationery company are included in the copy.
VERY NICE SINGLE EXAMPLE SUPERBLY BINDED by the leader of the Nancy School.
PROVENANCE René Wiener (bookplate pastedown)| William F. Gable Library (bookplate pastedown).
REFERENCE Binding reproduced in: Art de France, 1961, art. by Jacques Guignard on the "talking" binding and the Nancy School| "[...] The illustration of
Rêve remains one of the major works of Symbolism: the experimental theme of the novel as well as the confrontation of Zola and Schwabe, made it the place of a representation of the aesthetic and intellectual conflicts of the time, opposing naturalism and idealism." Presentation of the exhibition Symbolism and Naturalism: Carlos Schwabe, illustrator of Zola's
Dream, Musée d'Orsay 1994.
(Binding soiled with slightly split spines).