Gaspard
BENJAMIN (René) illustrated by Jean LEFORT
Paris - Imprimerie Nationale – Devambez Éditeur - 1917
- Bookbinder : CREUZEVAULT
- Format : In-4.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 244 pp.
Leather-edged slipcase. Full dark blue morocco binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with golden fillets. Large frame of gilded fillets adorning the boards, a jewel on the inside corners. All edges gilt. Cover kept. Binding signed CREUZEVAULT. Sixteen watercolours out of text by Jean LEFORT.
LIMITED DRAWING. One of the 300 numbered copies on vellum in the shape of the Blanchet frères and Kléber paper mills, after 5 on Japan in the shape and 30 on Imperial Japan.
Unique copy, enriched with 16 COLOUR DRAWINGS in the text by Louis VERGETAS (signed L. Vergetas or L. V.). Born in 1882, a student of Fernand Cormon at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Louis Vergetas exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français before returning to his inspirational land, Normandy .
This first great novel about the Great War won the Goncourt Prize in 1915.
Perfect condition.
Catalogs & newsletter
Subscribe to the KOEGUI Bookstore newsletter and receive our catalog directly in your mailbox.
Enter your email address in the field below.