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Album Lefèvre-Utile: LES CONTEMPORAINS CÉLÈBRES: Portraits Authgraphes Notices Biographiques Illustrées Portraits Humoristiques des Célébrités Contemporaines: Première Série
1904Best.-Nr. 80187Paris: Publications Octave Beauchamp 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Deluxe issue with with Cappiello plates and additional "notices biographiques"; indicated as "First Series" but not other series issued. Printed by G. de Malherbe: Paris on laid paper with "LU Nantes" watermark. Quarto: unpaginated with 28 full-page plates with tissue guards halftone or photogravure portraits after photographs by Nadar Pierre Petit et al with lithographic decorations in color after illustrations by Fraikin Habert-Dys Orazi et al; 14 full-page plates with tissue guards all color lithographs after caricatures by Leonetto Cappiello; and 28 textual vignettes photo-engravings printed in red after illustrations by Vogel. The half-title title page and copyright page are printed in red and black with page ornaments and ornamental initials printed in red and black. In the publisher's deluxe gray-green variegated flat-weave cloth spine over solid beech wood boards with beveled edges with a 2 3/4" cut-out with inset celluloid medallion featuring a molded portrait of Sarah Bernhardt after an illustration by Alphonse Mucha on the front panel. The front is framed by brown-stamped ruled borders with brown-stamped titling and floral decorations against sky with tan rose green light green and light blue hand coloring while the rear panel is framed by brown-stamped borders with brown stamped titling and stork and cathedral decorations with tan white gray yellow and light blue hand coloring. The spine features light green-stamped ornamental bands and floral devices and green-stamped titling. Top edge gilt with olive coated endpapers adorned with an overall embossed swan pattern. An exquiste example. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Publications Octave Beauchamp hardcover
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