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(CHARMAISON, RAYMOND.) Regnier, Henri de. Les Jardins Précieux. 8 brightly-colored pochoir plates by Charmaison colored by Jean Saudé plus an original design by Charmaison. 477x329 mm; 18 3/4x12 3/4 inches, sheets, full margins. Folio, contents loose as issued in original wrappers with pochoir design; publisher's pictorial boards and illustrated endpapers, ties lacking, lightly toned, joint split at foot; internally sound, plates bright and clean. Paris: Collection Corrard/Meynial, 1919
number 10 of only 12 copies initialed by charmaison and with an original initialed colored illustration and remarques, from a total edition of 300. An album of lush formal garden landscapes featuring eight beautiful full-page plates. Publisher Corrard argued that the the work would bring "the first note of modern art" to garden design as his previous magazine, Les Modes et Manières d'Aujourd'hui, had done for fashion.
