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ÉDY-LEGRAND. Le Cantique des Cantiques. Paris: N. Matzneff, Editions Orion, [1930]. - 2 volumes in-4, 323 x 249: (1 blank f.), 106 pp. (5 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. Black box, three horizontal parallel bands of cream box decorated with gilt fillets and gilt foliage in the center and continuously on the boards and spine, gilt title mosaicked in cream box on the upper part of the first board, and composition representing a hand holding grapes, mosaicked in red, dark green and cream box, on the lower part, smooth spine, gilt fillet inside, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase, and black half-box, gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated in the center with three horizontal parallel bands of cream box decorated with gilt fillets and gilt foliage, and three gilt fillets at the tail, gilt head, untrimmed, for the volume of suites (M. Bernard 1933). Edition of 115 copies, with 35 original intaglio engravings by the painter and illustrator ÉDY-LEGRAND (1892-1970), including 23 full-page engravings, 8 chapter headings and 4 culs-de-lampe. One of 99 copies on Montval white vellum containing 3 suites of engravings, including one in first state. These suites have been bound here in a separate volume in black half-box. A very fine copy in period binding by Marguerite Bernard, active from 1922 to 1939, who was a pupil of Noulhac for bookbinding and Cuzin for gilding. She won a bronze medal at the 1925 Exposition des Arts décoratifs. A very well preserved copy.

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ÉDY-LEGRAND. Le Cantique des Cantiques. Paris: N. Matzneff, Editions Orion, [1930]. - 2 volumes in-4, 323 x 249: (1 blank f.), 106 pp. (5 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. Black box, three horizontal parallel bands of cream box decorated with gilt fillets and gilt foliage in the center and continuously on the boards and spine, gilt title mosaicked in cream box on the upper part of the first board, and composition representing a hand holding grapes, mosaicked in red, dark green and cream box, on the lower part, smooth spine, gilt fillet inside, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase, and black half-box, gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated in the center with three horizontal parallel bands of cream box decorated with gilt fillets and gilt foliage, and three gilt fillets at the tail, gilt head, untrimmed, for the volume of suites (M. Bernard 1933). Edition of 115 copies, with 35 original intaglio engravings by the painter and illustrator ÉDY-LEGRAND (1892-1970), including 23 full-page engravings, 8 chapter headings and 4 culs-de-lampe. One of 99 copies on Montval white vellum containing 3 suites of engravings, including one in first state. These suites have been bound here in a separate volume in black half-box. A very fine copy in period binding by Marguerite Bernard, active from 1922 to 1939, who was a pupil of Noulhac for bookbinding and Cuzin for gilding. She won a bronze medal at the 1925 Exposition des Arts décoratifs. A very well preserved copy.

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