Apr 24, 2008 - Sale 2143

Sale 2143 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(STEINLEN, THÉOPHILE ALEXANDRE.) Nodier, Charles. Histoire du Chien de Brisquet. Précédée d'une Lettre a Jeanne par M. Anatole France. With 25 illustrations by Steinlen (including cover) of which four are hors-texte engraved on wood in colors and 20 in black-and-white in the text, engraved by Deloche, E. Froment, Ernest et Frédéric Florian. 4to, 3/4 green straight-grain morocco with decorative gilt spine by Carayon; original covers bound in. Paris: E. Pelletan, 1900
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number 47 of 127 copies. Steinlen included a few of his trademark cats in this beautifully illustrated tale whose hero is a dog; one appears on the half-title where the artist has drawn himself, Pelletan, and Pelletan's oldest child Jeanne. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 338.