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RASSENFOSSE. FARRÈRE (Claude).
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RASSENFOSSE. FARRÈRE (Claude).
Shahra sultane, ou les sanglantes amours authentiques et mirifiques de Sultan Shah'Riar, roi de la Perse et de la Chine, et de Shahrâ sultane, héroine. Paris, Dorbon 1923. Small in-4, lemon morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, author, title, place and date gilt, caissons decorated with a gilt f leuron and edged with a mosaic listel, boards decorated with a composition forming an architectural frame, with gilt fillets, listel edging and mosaic f loral pieces, gilded stippling at the edges, morocco spandrels decorated with a roulette, 3 fillets and angular f loons, all gilded, ochre moiré satin lining and endpapers, marbled paper second endpaper, gilded head, covers and spines preserved, untrimmed. and spine preserved, untrimmed [Flammarion Vaillant] (spine browned, small tear at head).
Edition illustrated with compositions by Armand Rassenfosse: a frontispiece, color illustrations in the text, ornaments.
Edition of 550 copies: one of the top 50 (no. 35) containing a triple suite of illustrations, including 2 before the letter and in different colors, and an original pencil sketch by Rassenfosse enhanced with watercolor.
PROVENANCE
Maurice J. Lachard (by descent).
Shahra sultane, ou les sanglantes amours authentiques et mirifiques de Sultan Shah'Riar, roi de la Perse et de la Chine, et de Shahrâ sultane, héroine. Paris, Dorbon 1923. Small in-4, lemon morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, author, title, place and date gilt, caissons decorated with a gilt f leuron and edged with a mosaic listel, boards decorated with a composition forming an architectural frame, with gilt fillets, listel edging and mosaic f loral pieces, gilded stippling at the edges, morocco spandrels decorated with a roulette, 3 fillets and angular f loons, all gilded, ochre moiré satin lining and endpapers, marbled paper second endpaper, gilded head, covers and spines preserved, untrimmed. and spine preserved, untrimmed [Flammarion Vaillant] (spine browned, small tear at head).
Edition illustrated with compositions by Armand Rassenfosse: a frontispiece, color illustrations in the text, ornaments.
Edition of 550 copies: one of the top 50 (no. 35) containing a triple suite of illustrations, including 2 before the letter and in different colors, and an original pencil sketch by Rassenfosse enhanced with watercolor.
PROVENANCE
Maurice J. Lachard (by descent).