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Les Liaisons dangereuses
Pierre de CHODERLOS de LACLOS illustrated by Sylvain SAUVAGE
Chez l’Artiste. - Imprimé par Pierre Bouchet - 1930
- Bookbinder : G. CRETTÉ
- Format : In-4.
- Number of volumes : 2 tomes.
- Binding : Related.
- Collation : Tome 1: 211 pp. Tome 2: 218 pp.
In a bordered case. Full brick-red morocco binding adorned with gold, silver and black rings interlaced like links and checks. Smooth spine with gold title. Reverse skin guards framed in morocco. All edges gilded. Cover preserved. Binding signed G. CRETTÉ.
Superb edition illustrated with 50 compositions in colors by Sylvain SAUVAGE, engraved on copper with the collaboration of D.A. MAILLART and coming from the workshop of Paul HAASEN. They are all large compositions divided into 2 frontispieces, 2 title vignettes, 5 chapter heads, 39 in the text and 2 culs-de-lampe.
LIMITED EDITION OF 175 NUMBERED COPIES ON MONTVAL PAPER.
This one of the 40 copies including a series of black plates with remarks and an ORIGINAL DRAWING on page 128 in relation to the letter from Cécile Volanges to Sophie Carnet : "I was undressing, when mom came in... The first drawer she opened was precisely the one where the letters of Chevalier Danceny were found... I was so troubled... "Pencil lead drawing and watercolour highlights, on fine bistre-coloured paper, signed in the upper left corner, 20 × 16 cm, representing the young Cécile Volanges in undressed clothes receiving, as she jumped out of bed, her mother brandishing this forbidden love letter.
The refinement of Cretté's binding expressing in this set of interlaced rings these "Dangerous Liaisons" marks the summit reached by this undisputed master of Art Deco bookbinding.
Great binding.
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