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(BAKST, LÉON.) Arsène, Alexandre. L'Art Decorative de Léon Bakst. Printed in orange and black. Notes by Jean Cocteau. Portrait frontispiece and 77 mounted plates including 50 color and 27 plain. Folio, publisher's 3/4 vellum gilt over marbled boards, moderate rubbing, green calf gilt spine label, some scuffing; a few plates wrinkled near mounting points, small glue and paper remnants on plate 3 text sheet. the first french edition and the earliest of the major works on léon bakst. Paris: Maurice de Brunoff, 1913
with--Les Ballets Russes, 9me Saison, Mai-Juin 1914. Numerous illustrations and photographs of the performances including 6 works with costume and/or sets by Bakst (among them, Papillons and Shéhérazade). 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, very light wear.
