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[UZANNE (Octave). Feminies. Eight unpublished chapters devoted to Woman, Love, and Beauty by Gyp, Abel Hermant, Henri Lavedan, Marcel Schwob & Octave Uzanne. Paris: for the "Contemporary Bibliophiles", Academy of Fine Books, 1896. - Large in-8, 260 x 164 : title, (2 ff.), IV, 205 pp., (1 f.), 8 plates, illustrated cover. Havana half-maroquin with corners, gilt filets, spine decorated with gilt flowers and mosaics of red morocco, lining and endpapers decorated with a floral decoration in the Art Nouveau style, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept, case (V. Champs). First edition published by Octave Uzanne for the Bibliophiles contemporains. This book has for origin the 8 frontispieces that Félicien Rops executed from 1872 to 1876 for a collection of watercolors formed by M. Noilly entitled : Cent croquis pour réjouir les honnêtes gens. The 8 texts which compose this work were thus written with the intention of illustrating "these various Ropsian theses of Woman and Love" (page II). The edition includes a typical Art Nouveau cover in colors by Georges de Feure (1868-1943), a title designed by Krutké and engraved by Émile Gaujean (1850-1900), floral frames on each page and vignettes by Léon Rudnicki (1873-1958), a full-page black composition by Gaston Noury (1865-1936) and the 8 out-of-text compositions in colors by Félicien Rops (1833-1898). The drawings of Rops "were engraved with helio, then taken again with drypoint, bitten with etching, printed in black and finally retouched, retouched again according to the requirements of the polychrome intaglio printing, known as à la poupée" (page II). The engravings were executed by Hellé, Fornet and Massé. Edition at 183 numbered copies on japon. This one, numbered 117, was specially printed for Alfred Piat (1826-1896), founder of the Société des Bibliophiles contemporains. It is enriched with a suite in black with remarks of the 8 compositions after Félicien Rops. Nice copy bound by Champs. Spine faded. Some scattered foxing. Provenance: Alfred Piat. - Aubert Raymond, with ex-libris engraved by Adolphe Lalauze.
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[UZANNE (Octave). Feminies. Eight unpublished chapters devoted to Woman, Love, and Beauty by Gyp, Abel Hermant, Henri Lavedan, Marcel Schwob & Octave Uzanne. Paris: for the "Contemporary Bibliophiles", Academy of Fine Books, 1896. - Large in-8, 260 x 164 : title, (2 ff.), IV, 205 pp., (1 f.), 8 plates, illustrated cover. Havana half-maroquin with corners, gilt filets, spine decorated with gilt flowers and mosaics of red morocco, lining and endpapers decorated with a floral decoration in the Art Nouveau style, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept, case (V. Champs). First edition published by Octave Uzanne for the Bibliophiles contemporains. This book has for origin the 8 frontispieces that Félicien Rops executed from 1872 to 1876 for a collection of watercolors formed by M. Noilly entitled : Cent croquis pour réjouir les honnêtes gens. The 8 texts which compose this work were thus written with the intention of illustrating "these various Ropsian theses of Woman and Love" (page II). The edition includes a typical Art Nouveau cover in colors by Georges de Feure (1868-1943), a title designed by Krutké and engraved by Émile Gaujean (1850-1900), floral frames on each page and vignettes by Léon Rudnicki (1873-1958), a full-page black composition by Gaston Noury (1865-1936) and the 8 out-of-text compositions in colors by Félicien Rops (1833-1898). The drawings of Rops "were engraved with helio, then taken again with drypoint, bitten with etching, printed in black and finally retouched, retouched again according to the requirements of the polychrome intaglio printing, known as à la poupée" (page II). The engravings were executed by Hellé, Fornet and Massé. Edition at 183 numbered copies on japon. This one, numbered 117, was specially printed for Alfred Piat (1826-1896), founder of the Société des Bibliophiles contemporains. It is enriched with a suite in black with remarks of the 8 compositions after Félicien Rops. Nice copy bound by Champs. Spine faded. Some scattered foxing. Provenance: Alfred Piat. - Aubert Raymond, with ex-libris engraved by Adolphe Lalauze.
