95 - [CHAHINE]. BLAIZOT, Claude, and GAUTROT, Jean-Édouard. Chahine: Illustrator (1874–1947). An illustrated catalogue raisonné featuring 423 reproductions.

[CHAHINE]. BLAIZOT, Claude, and GAUTROT, Jean-Édouard. Chahine: Illustrator (1874–1947). An illustrated catalogue raisonné featuring 423 reproductions. A catalogue raisonné of Edgar Chahine’s work as an illustrator, illustrated with 423 black-and-white reproductions. One of 300 copies (no. 118) featuring a separate suite of 7 original, previously unpublished etchings and drypoints. Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1974. 2 in-4 volumes, including a text volume bound in Bradel style with an ochre cloth-covered board cover and a volume of plates housed in an ochre cloth folder with laces. 4 folios and 161 pages, 423 black-and-white reproductions in the text; 7 original etchings and drypoints protected by protective sheets and collected in a separate folder. Minor marks and scuffs on the bindings; one protective sheet is creased. A catalog raisonné of the work of Edgar Chahine (1874–1947), a painter and printmaker of Armenian origin and a major figure of the Belle Époque. It lists all the books illustrated by the artist, ranging from classics by Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Flaubert to the Parisian chronicles of Anatole France and Colette, all illustrated with 423 black-and-white reproductions in the text and preceded by a preface by the renowned art critic Roger Marx. Limited edition of 350 copies on matte-coated paper from Papeteries Job; this is one of the 300 copies (no. 118) featuring a separate suite of 7 original, previously unpublished etchings and drypoints. Includes the exhibition catalog of Chahine’s work, presented from May 17 to 28, 1974, at the Blaizot bookstore (1 stapled in-8 volume of 23 pp., illustrated with black-and-white reproductions in the text and full-page plates). A fine copy.