Meunier (charles, Binder).- Haraucourt (edmond) L'effort: La Madone. L'antรฉchrist. L'immortalitรฉ. Auction
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Meunier (Charles, binder).- Haraucourt (Edmond) L'Effort: La Madone. L'Antรฉchrist. L'Immortalitรฉ.
Meunier (Charles, binder).- Haraucourt (Edmond) L'Effort: La Madone. L'Antรฉchrist. L'Immortalitรฉ.
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Meunier (Charles, binder).- Haraucourt (Edmond) L'Effort: La Madone. L'Antรฉchrist. L'Immortalitรฉ. La Fin du Monde, 4 parts in 1, number 11 printed "pour P.-L. Bรฉraldi" [?of 180], hand-coloured decorative floral half-title, colophon and title by Lรฉon Rudnicki, each part with pictorial title and text within pictorial or decorative border, many hand-coloured, extra-illustrated with 3 original watercolour plates, by Alexandre Lunois, Carlos Schwabe and Alexandre Seon, each signed by the artist, L'Immortalitรฉ with signed presentation inscription from Schwabe to Madame Hanin to first f. of text, bound in turquoise morocco with stunning floral mosaic design, by Charles Meunier, upper cover inlaid with drooping fuchsias and other flowers in crimson, pink, purple, green, tan and brown morocco and stamens tooled in gilt, lower cover inlaid with smaller design of purple flower and buds with stamens in gilt, both within a dark brown morocco frame, spine titled in gilt and inlaid with flowers in beige and brown morocco with two raised bands, turquoise morocco doublures with wide border of inlaid brown morocco flowers with buds & leaves and stamens tooled in gilt, signed "Ch.Meunier 98" at foot of front doublure, purple silk brocade flyleaves, marbled endpapers, with original hand-coloured decorative wrappers by Rudnicki bound in, g.e., spine very slightly sunned, morocco-edged marbled slip-case (little rubbed), 4to (285 x 225mm.), Paris, Les Bibliophiles Contemporains, 1894.*** Magnificent work with four stories illustrated by different symbolist artists, comprising: La Madone, colour lithographs after Alexandre Lunois; L'Antechrist, engravings after Eugene Couboin, hand-coloured by A.Charpentier; L'Immortalite, etchings and engravings by Carlos Schwabe, the latter hand-coloured by Charpentier; La Fin du Monde, hand-coloured engraved title printed in silver and engravings after Alexandre Seon, some hand-coloured.
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Meunier (Charles, binder).- Haraucourt (Edmond) L'Effort: La Madone. L'Antรฉchrist. L'Immortalitรฉ.

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Starting Price ยฃ2,600
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