BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules). Complete suite... - Lot 183 - Ferri & Associés

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BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules). Complete suite... - Lot 183 - Ferri & Associés
BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules). Complete suite of six compositions drawn and engraved with etching by Félix Buhot to illustrate " L'Ensorcelée " (Edition P., Lemerre, 1873). Album in-4, half maroq. garnet, gilt head, n. r. (Noulhac). Suite in double state, superb proofs on Japon of the 3rd state (Bourcard 85 to 90), with symphonic margins (edition of 12 copies only). Three very rare plates have been added: - Idea for the first frontispiece for L'Ensorcelée (B., 114), proof of the first state before the cut of the plate - Ex-libris for the work (B., 116), proofs of the 1st and 2nd states (the first one retouched by the artist) - La Maison maudite (B., 117), proof of the first state before the copperplate cut. These four proofs with very large symphonic margins are printed on yellow paper and bear, in Buhot's handwriting, the mention of the states and his signature. Two of these pieces are unpublished and extremely rare. From the Schuck Library (Cat. No. 42) Joint: - Complete suite of ten compositions drawn and engraved with etching by Felix Buhot to illustrate "Une Vieille Maîtresse" (Edition P., Lemerre, 1874). Album in-4, garnet half-maroq, gilt head, n. r. (Noulhac). Superb proofs on Japon of the 3rd state (Bourcard 99 to 108), with symphonic margins each bearing the artist's stamp and the first his autograph signature. (edition of 38 copies only). From the Schuck Library (Cat. No. 37) - Complete suite of five compositions to illustrate "Le Chevalier Des Touches," id. 1879. Cond. id. Suite in double state, superb proofs on Hollande paper of the 2nd and 3rd states (B., 91 to 95), with symphonic margins, the first plate signed and dedicated: "to my friend Royer" Schuck (cat. no. 58). - Complete suite of five compositions for Daudet's "Lettres de mon Moulin". P., Lemerre, 1881. Portraits added by Martinez and triple state of the compositions. This suite, bound identically, added later. EXCEPTIONAL SET, numerous engraved portraits and photographic portrait added. An explanatory note by Buhot on the number of copies of these suites with symphonic margins is attached.
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