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BRANGWYN (Frank) - VERHAEREN (Émile). Les Villes tentaculaires. Paris: Helleu & Sergent, 1919 [1920]. - In-4, 290 x 230: 178 pp, (3 ff.), 1 plate, illustrated cover. Cream box, first board decorated with four rectangles of brown box arranged in the center of the lower edge in the shape of a pyramid, including on the first three the title of the work in gilt lettering, quarter gilt pastille at the ends of each rectangle, the highest being surmounted by a gilt pyramidion, this composition being surmounted by two wide vertical strips of snakeskin, extending to the top edge, separated by a brown box strip, second plate decorated in the same spirit but with a brown box rectangle at the bottom, smooth spine, gilt fillet inside, with the two snakeskin strips and the brown box strip returning at the top, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (F. Bernard 1929). Edition of 274 copies, illustrated with 48 black compositions by British painter, draughtsman and engraver Frank BRANGWYN (1857-1966), including 1 out-of-text lithograph and 47 woodcuts, 6 of them full-page. Although dated 1919 on the title and cover, it was completed on June 15, 1920. One of 230 copies on French paper from Papeteries d'Arches. A superb copy in a period Art Deco binding by Marguerite Bernard. A pupil of Noulhac for bookbinding and Cuzin for gilding, she was active from 1922 to 1939. She won a bronze medal at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs. Spine slightly browned. Bookmark marks on pages 72 to 77.

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BRANGWYN (Frank) - VERHAEREN (Émile). Les Villes tentaculaires. Paris: Helleu & Sergent, 1919 [1920]. - In-4, 290 x 230: 178 pp, (3 ff.), 1 plate, illustrated cover. Cream box, first board decorated with four rectangles of brown box arranged in the center of the lower edge in the shape of a pyramid, including on the first three the title of the work in gilt lettering, quarter gilt pastille at the ends of each rectangle, the highest being surmounted by a gilt pyramidion, this composition being surmounted by two wide vertical strips of snakeskin, extending to the top edge, separated by a brown box strip, second plate decorated in the same spirit but with a brown box rectangle at the bottom, smooth spine, gilt fillet inside, with the two snakeskin strips and the brown box strip returning at the top, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (F. Bernard 1929). Edition of 274 copies, illustrated with 48 black compositions by British painter, draughtsman and engraver Frank BRANGWYN (1857-1966), including 1 out-of-text lithograph and 47 woodcuts, 6 of them full-page. Although dated 1919 on the title and cover, it was completed on June 15, 1920. One of 230 copies on French paper from Papeteries d'Arches. A superb copy in a period Art Deco binding by Marguerite Bernard. A pupil of Noulhac for bookbinding and Cuzin for gilding, she was active from 1922 to 1939. She won a bronze medal at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs. Spine slightly browned. Bookmark marks on pages 72 to 77.

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