Francis Carco : Tableau de l`amour venal

Francis Carco : Tableau de l’amour venal
With 12 original hors-texte
lithographs by Luc-Albert
Moreau
In an exquisite binding by Pierre
Legrain
Paris:
, 1924. First edition, limited
to 335 copies, this copy printed on
vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre.
Provenance: Henri Mondor ; Pierre
Berès (ex-libris).
Henri Mondor (1885 - 1962) was a
French physician, historian, and
biographer of Mallarmé. This
binding,
in
Levant
leather
embellished with palladium, with a
sienna doublure, and black Levant
chemise and slipcase, was completed
for him by Pierre Legrain on the 31st
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career. It is unusual among his
oeuvre because its composition is
arranged around a diagonal, rather
than along a vertical or longitudinal
axis. He created another binding for this book, which was exhibited in New York in 1947. (See Blaizot,
Georges. Masterpieces of French modern bindings. New York,
, 19 , no. 16,
reproduced.)
This copy is accompanied by:
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three original pencil drawings, signed and inscribed
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Literature:
Pierrre Legrain - Relieur, no. 123.
Adler, R. Relieures. Présenté par Rose Adler, pl. 35, reproduced.
Bères, Pierre. Choix de livres illustrés par les principaux artistes modernes, no. 21, reproduced.
Lucien de Samosate : Loukios ou l'âne
Translated by Émile Chambry.
With 66 original woodcuts by Henri Laurens,
including 23 full-page
In a 1952 binding by P. L. Martin (1913-1985)
Paris: Tériade, 1947. In an edition of 250 copies,
this one printed on vélin d’Arches pur fil. One of
the first 40 copies, this example also contains:
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An additional suite of all of the illustrations
on papier de Chine, signed by the artist.
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Four original drawings, signed with the
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g m ‘H.L.’. These were
designs for woodcuts which were not used
in the eventual publication. The first,
showing a group of three dogs, is related to
the illustration on page 31, in reverse. The
second, a male figure seen from behind, was
not used in the finished publication, while
the third, a reclining woman, varies slightly
from the final version (page 78.) The final
drawing, a man crowned with a laurel
wreath, corresponds to the final woodcut, on
page 93.
Henri Laurens produced three texts for Tériade, each illustrated with woodcuts, and all by ancient authors. No
other works published by Tériade were illustrated in this medium. This, the second of the three, narrates the tale
of a man transformed into a donkey by his lover, a s
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perfectly reflecting the donk y’ h m
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The typography and printing of both text and illustrations, including the typographic ornament in gold-leaf,
were executed by Pierre Bouchet. The binding is in citron Levant, inlaid with grey Levant and box calf
embellished with gold, with a grey doublure and a black Levant slipcase and chemise. In 1950 Martin also
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Literature:
Tériade, Les Livres de peintres, Musée Matisse, 2003, 94.
Berès, A., and Arveiller, M. Henri Laurens, 1885-1984, no. 153 (this example).