300 - LOUŸS, Pierre. GERVAIS. ROCHEGROSSE.

LOUŸS, Pierre. GERVAIS. ROCHEGROSSE. The House on the Nile, or The Appearances of Virtue [and] Ariadne, or The Path to Eternal Peace. Paris, printed for Charles Meunier, 1904. A set of 2 large quarto volumes (approx. 28 x 21 cm), 28 pp. and 27 pp. Contemporary red morocco leather, spine with 4 raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised insides of the covers lined with lemon-colored morocco leather accented with gold fillets and a Greek-style border inlaid with bronze and taupe morocco leather, endpapers lined with cardinal-red tabis, gilt edges, original covers preserved, each volume in a green morocco slipcase with a gilt title on the spine [Ch. Meunier, 1905] (spines of the slipcases worn with some minor scuffing; a slight, inconspicuous scratch on the spine of *La Maison sur le Nil*). Description: Magnificent copies, each containing the artists’ original drawings. Copies specially printed for Albert Bélinac, a French textile and silk manufacturer, in Saint-Étienne between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Limited editions of 140 copies, with each title being No. 3, printed on Japon paper (the first grade of paper after the two non-commercial grades) and containing all the original drawings. The drawings by Paul Gervais and Georges Rochegrosse are all bound in-fine within the volumes. Includes prints of the proofs in black or in one or two tones, sometimes with handwritten notes for printing. Texts are framed with gold lines, and the plates and drawings are mounted on tabs. Provenance: copies formerly owned by Louis Fricotelle, industrialist and politician, bearing his neo-Gothic bookplate engraved in black by Lebègue. In very fine morocco bindings, perfectly executed by Meunier in 1905.