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Paris dansant
Georges MONTORGUEIL illustrated by Adolphe WILLETTE
Paris - Théophile Belin - 1898
- Bookbinder : NOULHAC
- Format : In-4.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 220 pp.
Green half-marbled binding with corners. Spine mosaic of flowers. Top edge gilt. Original pink paper covers and spine bound in. Binding signed NOULHAC. Edition decorated with a frontispiece in three states, pure etching, drypoint and final state in color, 12 out of text in color, a title vignette in color and 26 header and cul-de-lampe vignettes by WILLETTE engraved in intaglio and in color by VIGNA-VIGNERON. At the end of the volume, a 4-color decomposition of the frontispiece
ORIGINAL EDITION LIMITED to 200 numbered copies on vat vellum paper with a dedication from the publisher.
One of the most beautiful books dedicated to Parisian life through dance, musette balls, masked balls, Moulin de la Galette. "Dance is both in official society and in the world a politeness. It is a pleasure on the street. It is a means to an end at a public dance, sometimes a state. In art, it is a goal. Let's look, in 1898, at dancing Paris..."
Very good condition.
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