Costumes et Attitudes 1912-13

Name: Costumes et Attitudes 1912-13
SKU: 29062
Price: 24000 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Lobel-Riche & Maurice Guillemot

Les Bars. Compositions et eaux-fortes de Lobel-Riche.

Paris, La Maison du Livre, printed for Charles Meunier, 1914.

1 vol. (300 x 375 mm). Copy entirely mounted on guards. Tan morocco, spine with raised bands underlined at the joints, beveled covers with, on the front cover, a large modeled and incised leather motif in painted and gilt relief, depicting the face of an elegant woman in a hat within a medallion against a background of plane-tree leaves; double gilt fillet on the edges; wide inner border decorated with gilt and blind fillets with gilt corner motifs; edges gilt over the printed wrappers; original plain and printed wrappers preserved; chemise and slipcase (binding signed by Charles Meunier).

Deluxe edition limited to only 30 copies, on Imperial Japan paper (no. 6).

First printing of this illustration, the most successful and powerful of this artist's work, comprising twenty original etchings, ten of them in color, all full-page plates.

An important binding by Charles Meunier, who had also bound copy no. 1 in the same style.

A precious copy with multiple states (Japan paper, parchment, pure etching, suite) and two unpublished original signed drawings.

It contains the plates in five states, including:
– the state colored à la poupée on Imperial Japan paper;
– the definitive state on parchment, signed in pencil by the artist;
– the pure etching and two intermediate states printed on Imperial Japan paper, making a total of five states of each plate;
– two unpublished original drawings, executed in black and red chalk on the half-title, signed;
– the suite on Imperial Japan paper of the ten in-text engravings.

Meunier made a specialty of these modeled, chiseled and colored leathers.

Provenance: Sotheby’s London (sale, June 27, 1997, no. 15, illustrated).

Copy no. 1 had been bound by Meunier in this same style of decoration.

#29062

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