(SCHWABE CARLOS) Mendès Catulle Hespérus

Sale 2195 - Lot 247

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(SCHWABE, CARLOS.) Mendès, Catulle. Hespérus. 13 full-page plates, all hand-colored; half-title with floral design, title-page vignette, colophon, pictorial chapter headings, and culs-de-lampe. 4to, marbled boards backed in black morocco with gilt title and lily-and-vine pattern along spine, some scuffing with minor surface loss; original wrappers bound in. Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d'Art, 1904

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this is number 8 of 20 copies reserved for members of the société "les xx" from a total edition of 350. This copy for member Monsieur Bartaumieux. A list of the group's officers and members for 1905 is bound in between the colophon and frontispiece as is a typed letter to Bartaumieux by members. The sumptuous and romantic illustrations by Symbolist artist Schwabe make this one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau books. Carteret IV,276; Monod 8030.