Null CHIMOT (Édouard) - COLETTE.
L'Envers du music-hall.
Paris : Francis Guillot…
Description

CHIMOT (Édouard) - COLETTE. L'Envers du music-hall. Paris : Francis Guillot, [1937]. - In-4, 277 x 220: frontispiece, 199 pp. (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Maroquin burgundy janseniste, smooth spine, burgundy morocco edge-to-edge lining, gray suede endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, burgundy morocco spine and bands folder, slipcase (Devauchelle 1947). Very fine edition illustrated with 20 full-page color compositions by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), engraved by Louis Maccard. Precious hors commerce artist's copy on japon, offered to Laurent Horny, bearing this justification in the art director's hand: "Exemplaire de présent hors commerce offert à Monsieur Laurent Horny. Georges Guillot." Enriched with a black suite of illustrations, an erotic plate in two states, and this double dispatch from the artist and Colette: à monsieur Laurent Horny // avec les hommages sympathiques // de l'artiste // Chimot to Monsieur Laurent Horny // in memory of the author // Colette Also included is a reproduction of a drawing by Jean Cocteau pasted on the first leaf after the cover. A very fine copy in a lined binding by Devauchelle, produced in 1947. A very well preserved copy. Provenance : Laurent Horny.

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CHIMOT (Édouard) - COLETTE. L'Envers du music-hall. Paris : Francis Guillot, [1937]. - In-4, 277 x 220: frontispiece, 199 pp. (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Maroquin burgundy janseniste, smooth spine, burgundy morocco edge-to-edge lining, gray suede endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, burgundy morocco spine and bands folder, slipcase (Devauchelle 1947). Very fine edition illustrated with 20 full-page color compositions by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), engraved by Louis Maccard. Precious hors commerce artist's copy on japon, offered to Laurent Horny, bearing this justification in the art director's hand: "Exemplaire de présent hors commerce offert à Monsieur Laurent Horny. Georges Guillot." Enriched with a black suite of illustrations, an erotic plate in two states, and this double dispatch from the artist and Colette: à monsieur Laurent Horny // avec les hommages sympathiques // de l'artiste // Chimot to Monsieur Laurent Horny // in memory of the author // Colette Also included is a reproduction of a drawing by Jean Cocteau pasted on the first leaf after the cover. A very fine copy in a lined binding by Devauchelle, produced in 1947. A very well preserved copy. Provenance : Laurent Horny.

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