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GARCÍA BENITO (Edouardo) - BOURGET (Paul). The Testament. Short story in prose. Paris : La Guirlande, [1919]. - In-4, 321 x 224 : (12 ff.), 3 plates, illustrated cover. Bradel red half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated, cover preserved (Simon Kra). Very rare first edition, printed by François Bernouard, illustrated with 21 colour compositions by the Spanish painter, decorator and fashion designer Eduardo GARCÍA BENITO (1891-1981), one of the leading artists of the Art Deco period. This text first appeared the same year in the magazine La Guirlande, illustrated with the same illustrations with some variations but without the 3 hors-texts which were added only in the 1919 edition. The title includes a vignette in black by Umberto Brunelleschi, repeated in colour on the cover. Edition of 154 copies. This one is one of 150 on Arches vellum in the form (n° 119), very well bound by Simon Kra. Transfers of some illustrations to the facing leaves, as is almost always the case with copies of this edition. Cover edges browned. Attached, illustrated by the same artist: - BURNAND (Robert). Reims. La Cathédrale. [Paris, Nancy, Strasbourg: Berger-Levrault, ca. 1918-1919]. - In-4 oblong, 276 x 348 : (2 ff. first blank), 38 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. A work composed as a tribute to Reims and its cathedral, where the story of the adventure of a wounded soldier becomes the pretext for the author to tell the history of this city and this building through the centuries, from Saint-Remi to the first world war. The book has been enhanced by 23 stencil-coloured compositions in the text and on the full page by Édouardo GARCÍA BENITO (1891-1981). The original was published in 1918 under the title Reims. Seven centuries of history in front of the Cathedral. This one, simply entitled Reims. La cathédrale appears to be a second printing or a reissue with a new title, published shortly after the first one, the same year or more likely in 1919. Some soiling to the boards.
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GARCÍA BENITO (Edouardo) - BOURGET (Paul). The Testament. Short story in prose. Paris : La Guirlande, [1919]. - In-4, 321 x 224 : (12 ff.), 3 plates, illustrated cover. Bradel red half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated, cover preserved (Simon Kra). Very rare first edition, printed by François Bernouard, illustrated with 21 colour compositions by the Spanish painter, decorator and fashion designer Eduardo GARCÍA BENITO (1891-1981), one of the leading artists of the Art Deco period. This text first appeared the same year in the magazine La Guirlande, illustrated with the same illustrations with some variations but without the 3 hors-texts which were added only in the 1919 edition. The title includes a vignette in black by Umberto Brunelleschi, repeated in colour on the cover. Edition of 154 copies. This one is one of 150 on Arches vellum in the form (n° 119), very well bound by Simon Kra. Transfers of some illustrations to the facing leaves, as is almost always the case with copies of this edition. Cover edges browned. Attached, illustrated by the same artist: - BURNAND (Robert). Reims. La Cathédrale. [Paris, Nancy, Strasbourg: Berger-Levrault, ca. 1918-1919]. - In-4 oblong, 276 x 348 : (2 ff. first blank), 38 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. A work composed as a tribute to Reims and its cathedral, where the story of the adventure of a wounded soldier becomes the pretext for the author to tell the history of this city and this building through the centuries, from Saint-Remi to the first world war. The book has been enhanced by 23 stencil-coloured compositions in the text and on the full page by Édouardo GARCÍA BENITO (1891-1981). The original was published in 1918 under the title Reims. Seven centuries of history in front of the Cathedral. This one, simply entitled Reims. La cathédrale appears to be a second printing or a reissue with a new title, published shortly after the first one, the same year or more likely in 1919. Some soiling to the boards.
