Sur l'eau
Paris: A. G. Mornay / Kieffer, 1927. Alfred Le Petit. 8vo, 7 3/4 x 6 1/8 in. (197 x 156 mm); pp. 224 + colophon. This is no. 55 of 68 on Japon impérial, from a limited edition of 1000. Printed in Vanves by Kapp. Colour pochoir frontispiece and illustrations by Le Petit, as well as tailpieces and initials in the text, with tissue guards on most. Original blind-stamped maroon morocco by René Kieffer —binder's ticket tipped in to front free endpaper— endpapers in orange paper printed in gold with leaf motif, covers blind-stamped with image of sailboat, gilt titling on spine, very slight wear to joints and corners; t.e.g. Original wrappers bound in; front wrapper and spine with color pochoir illustrations, rear wrapper blank. Text in French. No. 36 in the series "Les Beaux Livres."
A very attractive and colorful volume with a bounty of pochoir-colored illustrations by Alfred Le Petit (1841-1909), a French painter, photographer, cartoonist, and founder of several satirical broadsheets. He was ardently anti Napoleon III and anticlerical, but in this work he displays his more serene and lyrical paintbrush to accompany the 1888 story by Naturalist writer Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1893), the diary of a nine-day cruise along the Côte d’Azur.
Condition: Near fine.
Item number: 355
Price: $500.00
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