EPREUVE (L'). Art album. Director: Maurice DUMONT. P., 1894- - Lot 88

EPREUVE (L'). Art album. Director: Maurice DUMONT. P., 1894-95. Monthly artistic and literary review consisting of 12 issues (from no. 1 December 1894 to no. 11/12 November 1895), 12 in-folio issues, on ff. in 10 printed covers. COMPLETE COLLECTION, OF THE GREATEST RARE, printed in only 215 numbered copies (except for the last four issues, printed in 120). Literary contributors include Paul Verlaine, Henri de Régnier, Paul Fort, Rémy de Gourmont and Huysmans. The collection contains 120 original hors-texte prints by sixty symbolist and avant-garde artists, including two lithographs by Paul Gauguin, Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Fantin-Latour, Aristide Maillol and Edouard Vuillard, and numerous etchings by Béjot, Guérard and Rops.