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CHIMOT (Édouard) - MAGRE (Maurice). Les Soirs d'opium. Poésies. Paris: Le Livre du bibliophile "L'édition", 1921. - In-4, 318 x 248: (2 ff.), 164 pp. (2 ff. first blank), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Grey-brown morocco, gilded fillets framing the boards, spine ribbed and decorated in the same spirit, burgundy morocco lining adorned with two beautiful gilded and mosaic framings, one at the edge composed of a garland of stylized foliage in dark green and red morocco between two brown morocco listels edged with a gilded fillet, and in the center, interlaced gilded fillets forming compartments decorated with mosaic rosettes in red and dark green morocco, and small leaves in dark green morocco, set between two triple gilded fillets, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined case (Weckesser et ses fils). Edition of 514 copies, illustrated with 33 compositions by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), including 21 woodcuts engraved by P-J. Sauget, and 12 color etchings outside the text under captioned serpente. One of the first 55 copies reprinted in in-4 format on various papers, including an ORIGINAL DRAWING SIGNED by the artist, 4 states of the hors-texts and states of the woodcuts. This is one of 12 on antique japon à la forme, comprising 10 woodcuts in two states and 11 in three states, including one on chine. It is enhanced by a rejected plate and the two captioned serpents intended for the wood suites. A superb copy in Weckesser's contemporary lined and mosaic binding. A few very rare brown spots. Provenance: Joseph Lafarge, with bookplate.

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CHIMOT (Édouard) - MAGRE (Maurice). Les Soirs d'opium. Poésies. Paris: Le Livre du bibliophile "L'édition", 1921. - In-4, 318 x 248: (2 ff.), 164 pp. (2 ff. first blank), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Grey-brown morocco, gilded fillets framing the boards, spine ribbed and decorated in the same spirit, burgundy morocco lining adorned with two beautiful gilded and mosaic framings, one at the edge composed of a garland of stylized foliage in dark green and red morocco between two brown morocco listels edged with a gilded fillet, and in the center, interlaced gilded fillets forming compartments decorated with mosaic rosettes in red and dark green morocco, and small leaves in dark green morocco, set between two triple gilded fillets, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined case (Weckesser et ses fils). Edition of 514 copies, illustrated with 33 compositions by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), including 21 woodcuts engraved by P-J. Sauget, and 12 color etchings outside the text under captioned serpente. One of the first 55 copies reprinted in in-4 format on various papers, including an ORIGINAL DRAWING SIGNED by the artist, 4 states of the hors-texts and states of the woodcuts. This is one of 12 on antique japon à la forme, comprising 10 woodcuts in two states and 11 in three states, including one on chine. It is enhanced by a rejected plate and the two captioned serpents intended for the wood suites. A superb copy in Weckesser's contemporary lined and mosaic binding. A few very rare brown spots. Provenance: Joseph Lafarge, with bookplate.

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