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(TISSOT, JAMES.) Publisher's layout of the Old Testament portion of "The Life of Our Lord, Jesus Christ," with an Autograph Letter Signed by Tissot. Publisher's production mock-up with 182 pages of text and illustration layout for the English edition of the massive 2-volume Bible, published as "The Life of Our Lord, Jesus Christ" by Sampson, Low, London 1897, then by McClure-Tissot in New York, 1899 and finally, in an elaborate limited edition as "La Sainte Bible, Ancien Testament," published by M. De Brunoff, Paris, 1904. Thick 4to, loose folio sheets, with manuscript corrections, underlining, text replacement, and with photographic reproductions of Tissot's illustrations and decorative initials throughout, pages buckled and a bit toned. Np, circa 1897
with an autograph letter signed by tissot about the bible, 6 lines, on a single 8vo sheet: "Le Christ est le plus grand objet de l'art. Il est inspirateur et en même temps le modèle de la Charité. James Tissot," dated 29 February 1899. There is a pencil border to the left of the words where an illustration may have been planned. In his later years, Tissot had a transformative religious experience in the Parisian church of Saint-Sulpice in 1885 that led him to abandon his life as a successful Pre-Raphaelite painter of Euorpean society life and turn to religious topics, treating them with a degree of topographical and archeological allusion. His inspiration came from travels to Egypt, Syria, and Palestine in between 1886-89 where he visited all of the Holy sites and planned his monumental work on the life of Jesus Christ.
