BOUTET. - MAILLARD (Léon). Studies on some... - Lot 26 - Giquello

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BOUTET. - MAILLARD (Léon). Studies on some... - Lot 26 - Giquello
BOUTET. - MAILLARD (Léon). Studies on some original artists. Henri Boutet. Paris, Succursale de la Maison Dentu, 1894. 2 volumes in-4, fawn racine calf, gilt fillet, spine decorated, gilt numeral in tail, interior fillet, gilt head, cover and spine (Gruel). First edition, decorated with numerous illustrations: a portrait of Boutet engraved in etching by Charles Courtry, about 60 engravings out of text by Henri Boutet, some of them in colors and "most of them completely unpublished", and more than 200 illustrations in the margins of the text. Edition at 435 and 560 copies, these on japon impérial containing the plates in double state. AGREABLE EXAMPLE FROM THE JULES CLARETIE LIBRARY; bound with his own number, it bears a long autograph dispatch from the author to the latter (one page): " My dear Master, [...] I am thus a little your pupil, an unknown disciple, who comes to visit you by thought [...] ". It is further enriched with an ORIGINAL Sketch in blood and blue pencil by Henri Boutet. From the Grace Whitney Hoff library (bookplate).
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