198 - [PIETE. MAURICE DENIS].

[PIETE. MAURICE DENIS]. Set of 3 documents. SET of 4 documents, including one “ex dono” from the painter Maurice Denis and one sent by mail. -Daily Missal for Children. in-16, on Bible paper Illustrated with 300 woodcuts by Cramer, printed in two colors. Autographed gift from the painter Maurice Denis to his “dear goddaughter Françoise” for Christmas 1931. Published by the Daughters of the Church (binding worn). -DENIS. DE LA SERRE (Abbot). The Book of the Eucharist. Paris, Jacques Beltrand, 1920. In-8, loose sheets in two publisher’s folders. With a dedication by Louis Moret. -A leaflet containing a hymn for the procession. -Illuminated manuscript on vellum, bound in burgundy morocco leather, a gift for a baptism (1900). Square 18mo. Modern illuminated vellum (some leaves misaligned)? Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.