BONNARD (Pierre). - VERLAINE (Paul). In parallel.... - Lot 187 - Ferri & Associés

BONNARD (Pierre). - VERLAINE (Paul). In parallel. Original lithographs by Pierre Bonnard. P., Impr. Nationale, A. Vollard, ed. 1900. In-4 (298 x 242 mm), jans. red morocco, gilt on witnesses, ill. cover and spine cons. (H. Lesieur). Frontispiece and 108 lithographs by Pierre Bonnard printed in pink, including 21 full-page and 9 woodcuts in black. EDITION OF 200 COPIES. One of 170 on Hollande vellum, this one no. 167. Copy with title and cover in second edition, with a vignette designed by Bonnard to replace that of the Imprimerie Nationale. nationale. "To accompany Verlaine's poems, Bonnard invented an irregular composition; the lithographs play with the stanzas, embracing them, mingling with them or slipping into the margins, voluptuous and tender images whose power of suggestion is miraculously allied to the poet's art [...] (Terrasse Bonnard, p. 62). Bonnard himself says that he "insisted on pink lithographs, which allowed me to better capture Verlaine's poetic atmosphere". Rauch, 21; Garvey, 27. FIRST BOOK EDITED BY AMBROISE VOLLARD, RECOGNIZED AS HIS MASTERPIECE. ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.