BARBIER GEORGE Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky

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BARBIER. GEORGE. Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky. Foreword by Francis de Miomandre. Translated from the French by C. W. Beaumont. 12 color pochoir plates by Barbier. 4to, rebound in 1/2 vellum, worn, with original front cover bound in (rear lacking) and with numerous blank sheets to fill bulk of text block. Extraneous folded pages of material concerning dance laid in, including 2 engraved sheets from Roger Feuillet's Chorégraphie ou l'Art d'Écrire la Danse, 1701. London: C. W. Beaumont & Co., 1913

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first edition in english. number 5 of 400 copies. The illustrations depict Nijinsky in his signature roles in such ballets as L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, Scheherezade, Le Dieu Bleu, Les Sylphides, and Carnaval. Derra de Moroda 218; Niles & Leslie I, 22.