Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 517

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
TIJTGAT, EDGARD. Le Lendemain de la Saint-Nicolas. Preface by Louis Delattre. Vignettes, pictorial title, yellow decorative borders and head- and tail-piece, 16 double-page plates, with decorative colored borders, engraved in linoleum. Small folio, original publisher's printed wrappers with vignette in relief to front wrapper. Brussels: Presses de Remy Havermans, 1913
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number 45 of 90 copis on japan, signed by tijtgat. Loosely inserted is a proof on japon paper with a variant image in an alternative color of the illustration for the fifth text ("Ensuite nous nous trouvâmes devant un palais tout en massepain . . . ").
"Edgard Tijtgat m'a rendu, avec ses planches, un suave souvenir des heures sans péché de ma vie puérile ... Je souhaite que tous ceux, sous les yeux de qui passeront ces naïvetés exquises d'un pinceau enivré d'enfance, puissent y trouver le même bonheur"--(Delattre, from the Preface).