LOBEL-RICHE (Alméry) and Anne OSMONT. Paris, manners, costum - Lot 197

LOBEL-RICHE (Alméry) and Anne OSMONT. Paris, manners, costumes & attitudes. 1914-1915. II. The Dance. Paris, printed for Charles Meunier, 1915. In-4, burgundy morocco, cold-stamped listel, spine with four large ribbed bands bearing the gilt title, inside frame decorated with cold-stamped listels crossing each other at the corners with a set of small gilt squares, edge-to-edge lining in the same morocco, aubergine moire endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover, case (Gruel) VERY RARE EDITION OF ONLY 30 COPIES, illustrated with compositions in the text and 10 etchings by Lobel-Riche. One of 25 copies on tinted vellum containing 5 states of the off-text engravings, a suite of 11 small etched artists' remarks, various proofs and artists' proofs of the 10 off-text engravings, and 15 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by the artist in pencil or sanguine. This copy bears this SIGNED ENVOIR FROM THE ARTIST: One day, I understood why Maurice Chevalier was an artist and a poet: he had the secret of the great hearts that impose themselves. And it is with pleasure that I dedicate this book to him in memory of our common feeling [...]. PERFECT BINDING IN DOUBLE MOROCCO OF GRUEL.