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BLUM (Maxime) - CHIMOT (Édouard). Pilar d'Algésiras. [Paris: chez l'artiste, 1934]. - In-4, 280 x 216: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 189 pp., (1 f.), 11 plates, printed cover. Green morocco with continuous decoration of large mosaic flowers in yellow, light green, dark green, brown, red, old rose, garnet, gray and havana morocco on the boards and spine, long gilt title on the edge of the first board, smooth spine, ornate first lining with original copper inlay, framed by a wide band of dark blue morocco, decorated with a gilded fillet in the center and bordered by two listels of havana morocco, second lining comprising a large piece of blue morocco in a wide frame of green morocco decorated with a gilded fillet in the center and bordered by two listels of havana morocco, blue moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined case (Esther Founès). Deluxe edition of 103 copies, illustrated with 21 color etchings by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), including one on the title, 8 in the text and 12 hors texte. One of 60 copies on Japon Antique, this one (no. 20) being one of the first 20 reserved for a group of bibliophiles, destined for Madame Louise Pierre Boucard, containing, in addition to the artist's signature on the justification and a suite in black with remarks of the etchings, THE COMPLETE FILE OF ONE OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS. The one in the present copy concerns the plate between pages 134-135. It consists of the original copperplate, inlaid in the first lining of the binding, 8 signed original drawings, including one on tracing paper, and 9 proofs (first, second, third, fourth, fifth states, signed final proof, color test with remark, signed final color proof, and an "enhanced proof of drawing for the background" also signed). A very fine copy in a period mosaic binding produced for Louise Pierre Boucard by Esther Founès, who practiced in Paris from 1920 to 1939. It is enriched with 3 autograph letters signed by Édouard Chimot. The first, dated July 30, 1934, has been bound at the head. Written on an in-4 page, it accompanied the copy: "This is Pilar d'Algésiras, whom you would like to welcome to your library [...] This little Andalusian girl has caused me a great deal of torment. I wanted to try to renovate my engraving in color, to remove as much black as possible, to model with the local tint. And I'm sorry, when I leaf through the book, to be as far away as I would have liked to be." The other two letters are addressed to his "Dear Friends" and were written in Barcelona on December 12, 1947 (2 pages in-8) and April 21, 1949 (1 page a quarter in-8). A very well preserved copy, despite the slightly faded spine and occasional foxing on the edges of some pages. Provenance: Louise Pierre Boucard.
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BLUM (Maxime) - CHIMOT (Édouard). Pilar d'Algésiras. [Paris: chez l'artiste, 1934]. - In-4, 280 x 216: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 189 pp., (1 f.), 11 plates, printed cover. Green morocco with continuous decoration of large mosaic flowers in yellow, light green, dark green, brown, red, old rose, garnet, gray and havana morocco on the boards and spine, long gilt title on the edge of the first board, smooth spine, ornate first lining with original copper inlay, framed by a wide band of dark blue morocco, decorated with a gilded fillet in the center and bordered by two listels of havana morocco, second lining comprising a large piece of blue morocco in a wide frame of green morocco decorated with a gilded fillet in the center and bordered by two listels of havana morocco, blue moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined case (Esther Founès). Deluxe edition of 103 copies, illustrated with 21 color etchings by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), including one on the title, 8 in the text and 12 hors texte. One of 60 copies on Japon Antique, this one (no. 20) being one of the first 20 reserved for a group of bibliophiles, destined for Madame Louise Pierre Boucard, containing, in addition to the artist's signature on the justification and a suite in black with remarks of the etchings, THE COMPLETE FILE OF ONE OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS. The one in the present copy concerns the plate between pages 134-135. It consists of the original copperplate, inlaid in the first lining of the binding, 8 signed original drawings, including one on tracing paper, and 9 proofs (first, second, third, fourth, fifth states, signed final proof, color test with remark, signed final color proof, and an "enhanced proof of drawing for the background" also signed). A very fine copy in a period mosaic binding produced for Louise Pierre Boucard by Esther Founès, who practiced in Paris from 1920 to 1939. It is enriched with 3 autograph letters signed by Édouard Chimot. The first, dated July 30, 1934, has been bound at the head. Written on an in-4 page, it accompanied the copy: "This is Pilar d'Algésiras, whom you would like to welcome to your library [...] This little Andalusian girl has caused me a great deal of torment. I wanted to try to renovate my engraving in color, to remove as much black as possible, to model with the local tint. And I'm sorry, when I leaf through the book, to be as far away as I would have liked to be." The other two letters are addressed to his "Dear Friends" and were written in Barcelona on December 12, 1947 (2 pages in-8) and April 21, 1949 (1 page a quarter in-8). A very well preserved copy, despite the slightly faded spine and occasional foxing on the edges of some pages. Provenance: Louise Pierre Boucard.
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