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644 - EEKHOUD, Georges *Magrice in Flanders, or The Beggars’ Bush*. A picaresque-chivalric novel [...]. Illustrations by Edmond Van Offel [...]. Brussels: Les Cinquante, 1927. In-8°. In folio, with illustrated edition cover and slipcase. First edition illustrated by Edmond Van Offel with 100 woodcuts, including 1 on the frontispiece and 2 repeated on the cover. Printed in a run of 68 numbered copies on China paper, one of the 50 reserved for members of the Société des Cinquante (No. 6 for Pierre Groensteen), containing a bistre proof of the frontispiece. Copy enhanced with 2 original wash drawings by Van Offel used for the illustrations on pp. 8 and 176 (very slight crease on both wash drawings), a set of all the illustrations printed on China paper, and a menu from the dinner held on Dec. 10, 1927, at the Taverne Royale in Brussels, on the occasion of the volume’s publication. Ref. Grisay 1996 30. Formerly owned by Pierre Groensteen (1921–1963), a notary and bibliophile from Brussels (copy inscribed with his name). Included, by the same author, from *La Renaissance du livre* (Brussels), in in-12 format: 1. *La nouvelle Carthage*. 1926. 2 vols. 1/24 on Arches laid paper, second paper (no. 5). - 2. *Nouvelles kermesses*. (Uncut sections, rare stitching.) 1/29 on paper from the Royal Dutch Society of Maastricht (No. 18). (4 vols.)

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EEKHOUD, Georges *Magrice in Flanders, or The Beggars’ Bush*. A picaresque-chivalric novel [...]. Illustrations by Edmond Van Offel [...]. Brussels: Les Cinquante, 1927. In-8°. In folio, with illustrated edition cover and slipcase. First edition illustrated by Edmond Van Offel with 100 woodcuts, including 1 on the frontispiece and 2 repeated on the cover. Printed in a run of 68 numbered copies on China paper, one of the 50 reserved for members of the Société des Cinquante (No. 6 for Pierre Groensteen), containing a bistre proof of the frontispiece. Copy enhanced with 2 original wash drawings by Van Offel used for the illustrations on pp. 8 and 176 (very slight crease on both wash drawings), a set of all the illustrations printed on China paper, and a menu from the dinner held on Dec. 10, 1927, at the Taverne Royale in Brussels, on the occasion of the volume’s publication. Ref. Grisay 1996 30. Formerly owned by Pierre Groensteen (1921–1963), a notary and bibliophile from Brussels (copy inscribed with his name). Included, by the same author, from *La Renaissance du livre* (Brussels), in in-12 format: 1. *La nouvelle Carthage*. 1926. 2 vols. 1/24 on Arches laid paper, second paper (no. 5). - 2. *Nouvelles kermesses*. (Uncut sections, rare stitching.) 1/29 on paper from the Royal Dutch Society of Maastricht (No. 18). (4 vols.)

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Old and rare books, literature, autographs, archives
Thursday, December 3
01:00 PM
19/2 Rue aux Laines
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

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