(BINDING) France Anatole The Revolt of Angels

Sale 2173 - Lot 12

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(BINDING.) France, Anatole. The Revolt of Angels. 12 plates on cardstock, many with caption or remarque below the central image; numerous in-text illustrations by Frank C. Papé. Small 4to, red morocco by rené kieffer with an oval inlay of blue morocco containing a broadsword in silver, with star and dot pattern running in vertical lines from its edges, the same pattern repeated in gold outside of medallion, running to edges of covers, green oval with title in gilt along spine, turn-ins with gold stars and blue silk endpapers, additional endpapers of red and gold marbled pasteboard. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, (1924)

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A fine copy of this title, in a striking Kieffer binding. In 1921 Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature, and Papé was chosen to illustrate a group of six of the author''s most famous works, this among them. The plates employ Papé''s dark humor and lavish detail in a combination of fantasy and trenchant satire.