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DE LEOTARD, Genevieve, bookbinder COLETTEBiblio.com

Sept Dialogues de Bêtes.

1927Best.-Nr. 12382Paris: Les Arts et le livre 1927. No. 8 of 40 copies printed on Annam paper a kind of japon of a total edition of 590. Illustrated with 50 drawings reproduced in the text and 7 original lithographs by Jean Pavie. This copy is unique with 4 original drawings for the book bound in and with guide sheets showing measurements and orientation in the text. 8vo. bound by Geneviève de Léotard in 1928 signed on the upper turn-in in full brown morocco with mosaic design at the bottom of the upper cover reflected at the top of the lower side and on the spine of triangular tooth like pattern of onlaid chestnut brown and light brown with six gilt and black fillets following the triangular pattern spine lettered in gilt turn-ins with four gilt and blind fillets highlighted in black with an inner border of purple morocco and a strip of chestnut and brown calf at the bottom and top edges of the upper and lower turn-ins respectively rich brown watered silk doublures with an inner marbled flyleaves of delicious browns gold and palladian all edges gilt. Housed in the original matching brown morocco edges slipcase covered in the marbled paper seen on the endpapers. Spine with some wear adn rubbing.Geneviève de Léotard 1899 was a precocious book artist. She began studying bookbinding at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1912 when she was only 12 with an emphasis on gilding. On graduation she worked with Pierre Legrain as did many of the great women binders becoming an independent binder in 1925. In 1927 she won the Prix Blumenthal and then became a teacher at her alma mater teaching many of the next generation of binders including probably Lucette Levy whose bindings are shown in this catalogue. De Leotard was adventurous and rather avant-garde in her choice of materials often mixing different skins and shades with perfect subtlety and her strong linear geometric style. Her graphic style was very crisp and her immaculate gilding and design skills were much appreciated by the bibliophiles of her time.Duncan and Bartha: Art nouveau and art deco bookbinding With original drawings by Jean Pavie bound into an Art Deco binding by Geneviève De Léotard Les Arts et le livre unknown

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L'Entrave

1929Best.-Nr. #18Colette L'Entrave. Illustrated by André Dignimont. Paris Éditions Mornay 1929. Square octavo. Unsigned binding in the Art Deco style. Brown morocco covers decorated with a large design of undulating gilt fillets and vertically superimposed gilt squares; green morocco onlaid triangles at head and foot; at the center a hexagon formed by intersecting triple gilt fillets with two inverted triangles of green onlaid morocco. Smooth spine decorated with vertical gilt fillets. Title and author lettered in gilt in an oriental style on mosaic morocco pieces inner gilt roll top edge gilt. Illustrated wrappers and spine preserved. Illustrated edition. Print run of 1000 copies. One of 844 copies on Rives paper unnumbered signed in the justification. Copy enriched with an autograph inscription in ink on the half-title traducted in English : "Dear Tonton accept this 'constraint' so that you may preserve your love of freedom. Colette." A fine inscription in this attractive production. The first edition of L'Entrave appeared in 1913. This edition is elegantly illustrated by André Dignimont 1891–1967 an artist for whom Colette felt both admiration and friendship she called him "Dig". She left a charming evocation of his art: "When I wish to be alone with you I politely set aside your acrobats your sailors and your cherry-mouthed non-commissioned officers; I beg pardon of your gentle female livestock; I turn the corner of an empty house whose shutter flaps peacefully stained with blood and I find you bending over a floral tailpiece—hearts of Jeannette narcissi and columbines mingled let us not forget the forget-me-not!—which you paint careful moved and dreamy like a maiden of old." He also illustrated Mitsou La Vagabonde and L'Ingénue libertine. The illustrations in this volume display the full range of his palette: sensual scenes an opium den urban landscapes as well as rural ones. Colette herself can be recognized in several of them. The fine inscription in this copy reflects both Colette's wit and the character of "Tonton" evidently a figure deeply attached to freedom. Mornay

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