Ballades, Rondeaux & Chansons. MAROT (Clément).

£750.00

Eaux-fortes en couleurs et Bois dessinés et gravées par Georges Bruyer.

20 coloured engravings and numerous woodcut vignettes in various colours.

4to. [291 x 201 x 21 mm]. [2]ff, 109, [3] pp. Contemporary binding by René Kieffer (signed in gilt on the front turn-in) of red goatskin, the covers blocked in blind with a vase of flowers framed within a panel hung with leafy branches, lillies, lamps etc. The spine divided into five panels, lettered in blind in the smaller second and fourth panels, the third with blind leaves and a shield, turn-ins and matching inside joints tooled with two gilt fillets and flowers, pictorial satin doublures, silk and marbled paper endleaves, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed, front wrapper bound in. Contained within a slipcase covered in marbled paper.
Paris: Collection Eclectique. Aug. Blaizot & R. Kieffer, 1910.

Limited to 250 copies, of which this in one of 180 "sur velin, contenant les eaux-fortes avec le texte". Occasional light foxing or spotting but a good copy in a bold Kieffer binding with satin doublures designed by Bruyer.

Stock no. ebc4597

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