(DETOUCHE HENRY) Les Péchés Capitaux

Sale 2225 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 1,920

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

DEADLY, YES, BUT FETCHING (DETOUCHE, HENRY.) Les Péchés Capitaux. Suite of 7 color etchings of the deadly sins by Detouche, plus title-page and table of contents, with additional hand coloring in watercolor and metallic paint; beautiful art nouveau borders surrounding text opposite plates. Folio, turquoise morocco with gilt floral design on front cover by Riviere & Son, defective, spine and ends worn, discolored, could use restoration. Paris: Librairie Artistique/Boudet Editeur, (1900)

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number 136 of 150 copies on vélin du marais from a total edition of 175. The images accompany previously unpublished poems, each dedicated to one of the sins, by Edmond Haraucourt, Jules de Marthold, Francis de Croisset, Marc Legrand, Émile Verhaeren, Henri de Régnier, and André Fontainas.