Cretté (Georges, binder).- Boylesve (René) La Leçon d'Amour dans un Parc, one of 25 large paper
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Cretté (Georges, binder).- Boylesve (René) La Leçon d'Amour dans un Parc, number 16 of 25 special large paper copies with an original drawing and additional states of the plates & vignettes, from an edition limited to 300 (most 8vo), colour plates, black & white illustrations and pictorial initials heightened in gold by René Lelong, with original signed watercolour bound in at beginning, 2 additional states of plates in black and in sanguine and additional state of vignettes in sanguine (all with remarques) bound in at end, some light offsetting, very occasional spotting, superb turquoise morocco mosaic binding, by Georges Cretté, upper cover with title in gilt inside oval panel surrounded by a trellis of inlaid grey morocco covered with roses in deep pink & green morocco with outer gilt fillet and inner row of small gilt dots, lower cover inlaid with all-over similar trellis of roses, spine titled in gilt with compartments of inlaid morocco roses and four raised bands, grey silk brocade doublures and flyleaves, turn-ins with wide gilt fillet and inlaid brown morocco border with three inlaid flowers in cream & green morocco at corners, marbled endpapers, original pictorial wrappers bound in, g.e., signed "G.Cretté succ. de Marius Michel" at foot of front turn-in, calf-lined dark blue half morocco paste-paper chemise with yapp edges, paste-paper slip-case (a little browned), 4to (c.365 x 270mm.), Paris, 1923.This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
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Cretté (Georges, binder).- Boylesve (René) La Leçon d'Amour dans un Parc, one of 25 large paper
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