A Rebours

Réf. 75123

Vendu

Joris-Karl HUYSMANS illustrated by Auguste LEPERE

Paris - Pour les Cent Bibliophiles - 1903

Bookbinder : VERMOREL
Format : In-8
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Bound.
Collation : 219 pp.

In a lined slipcase. Bound in full brown morocco. Boards decorated with a double gilt fillet and framed with a purple morocco scroll (with small rubbings) with fawn and green morocco corner fleurons from which a small branch of mosaic ivy starts, spine ribbed and decorated with mosaics in the same style, inner frame of the same morocco decorated with a gilt fillet gathering gilt fleurons in spandrels, double marbled paper endpapers. Edges gilt on witnesses. Cover and spine preserved. Binding signed VERMOREL. Spine very slightly faded.

First illustrated edition. 220 color woodcuts by Auguste LEPÈRE in the text (friezes, borders, headers, endpapers and vignettes). Unpublished preface where the author explains the genesis of À Rebours.

LIMITED EDITION of 130 copies on Rives laid paper watermarked with the title of the Société des Cent Bibliophiles. Nominative copy of Léon OROSDI.

The illustrations by Auguste LEPÈRE mark a date in the history of the modern illustrated book. Printed on the artist's hand press, the work uses for the first time the typeface designed by Georges AURIOL and engraved by Georges PEIGNOT. Carteret considers the work as a "tour de force of typographic printing, for the par- faite realization of the wood in colors".

Lepère's masterpiece and one of the most beautiful books of his time.