Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Réf. 43774

€ 12000.00

LACLOS (Pierre Choderlos de.) illustrated by George BARBIER

Paris - Le Vasseur et Cie - 1934

Bookbinder : Loutrel
Format : In-4.
Number of volumes : 2 tomes +1 emboitage
Binding : Related.
Collation : Tome 1 : 218 pp. Tome 2 : 217 pp.

Leather-edged slipcase. Full Jansenist red morocco binding. Nervous spine with golden author, title and date. Top edge gilts. Original paper covers and spine bound in. Binding signed LOUTREL. Past spines.

Illustrated edition of 27 original George BARBIER colour compositions including the cover, a justification vignette and a repeated title frame, 2 chapter headings, 2 letters and 20 plates.

Limited edition at 720 copies, this one of 650 on Rives vellum.

Copy ENRICHI OF A SUPERABLE SET OF 53 ORIGINAL BARBIER GEORGE DRAWINGS, including 50 pencil sketches (21 x 15cm) and 3 more elaborate signed drawings, two of which in watercolour (20.5 x 15 cm), as well as 26 photographs for work on the model.
An autograph letter signed by François-Louis Schmied has been attached to Mrs. Corrard regarding the edition of Les Chansons de Bilitis illustrated by George Barbier (3 pages and a half in-8).

Great work.