MERIMEE ( Prosper ) CHIMOT (Edouard)Livre Rare Book
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1929réf. 1521Paris: Éditions d'Art de l'Intermédiaire du Bibliophile. 1929. One of 20 copies hors-commerce from the overall edition of 325 copies this copy being reserved for the artist Édouard Chimot signed by Chimot to the limitation page containing an original pencil and pastel drawing of a nude by the artist signed in ink and an additional suite of 16 loose black and white etchings curiously perhaps in error the additional etching of the fifteenth illustration here is lacking but two copies of the additional etching of the sixteenth illustration are present thus still collating as 16 additional etchings as called for. Folio in sheets within printed paper wrappers with titles in red and black in glassine. 33 x 25.5cm. Printed on Japanese paper. Illustrated with 16 colour etchings by Édouard Chimot. A near fine copy with just a small mark to the rear of the glassine wrapper; the contents remain clean and crisp. The illustrator Édouard Chimot's 1880-1959 own hors-commerce copy of this sumptuous edition of the Belgian poet and writer Pierre Louÿs's 1870-1925 first novel depicting courtesan life in ancient Alexandria originally published in 1896 containing an additional suite of etchings and an original drawing by the artist. Paris: Éditions d'Art de l'Intermédiaire du Bibliophile. unknown
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