Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
BARBIER, GEORGE; and SCHMIED, FRANÇOIS-LOUIS. Personnages de Comédie. Text by Albert Flament. Illustrated throughout with color wood engravings by Schmied after Barbier, comprising half-title illustration, Harlequin vignette on title, 12 full- and 2 half-page plates, 22 four-line initials, tail-pieces, decorative devices within, and borders around the text, many heightened in silver and gold. Small folio, original wrappers featuring illustration withing metallic marbled background, very light toning to borders; usual offsetting to facing text leaves; custom gilt-lettered green board box. number 134 of 150 copies signed by barbier. Ritchie 11; Carteret IV: 157. Paris: Meynial, (1922)