///, Poetry/Pierre Louÿs. Pybrac / Poésies [Ornées de 10 aquarelles par Feodor Rojankovsky] (exemplaire unique). — Cythère: Au coq hardi [i.e. Paris: René Bonnel], 1927.

Pierre Louÿs. Pybrac / Poésies [Ornées de 10 aquarelles par Feodor Rojankovsky] (exemplaire unique). — Cythère: Au coq hardi [i.e. Paris: René Bonnel], 1927.

Description: Softcover, French flapped wrappers, 19.7 x 14.5 cm, printed on thick wove paper watermarked “J. PERRIGOT ARCHES MBM”; engraved vignette by Foujita to t.p.; some pages towards the end uncut. Illustrated by ten original watercolours, unsigned.

Collation: Pink wrappers, lettered to front, in frame: “P. L. |—| PYBRAC |—| 1927”, 2 blank leaves (one in wrapper), [2] h.t./blank, [2] t.p. in red and black with engraved vignette by Foujita / blank, [2] (Sur la chemise…), [2] f.t. / watercolour on reverse, [5] 6-98 [2 colophon/blank], 2 blank leaves (one in wrapper).

Title-page (red and black): PIERRE LOUŸS | PYBRAC | POESIES | {vignette} | CYTHÈRE | AU COQ HARDI ||

Edition: Limited edition of 105 copies, of which this is copy № 28 on Arches paper, unique as enhanced with 10 colour drawings by an anonymous artist, presumably by Feodor Rojankovsky (dit Rojan), a unique copy.

Cat. raisonné: Dutel III № 2278 p. 334; Dutel describes two unique copies of the edition, one with 6 and another with 24 original watercolours by Rojan.

Contributors:

Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author.

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japanese-French, 1886 – 1968) – artist (t.p. vignette).

Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970).

René Bonnel (French, 1884 – 1975) – publisher.

Another unique copy of the same edition illustrated by an anonymous artist in this collection LIB-3061.2022.

SKU: LIB-3130.2023 Categories: ,

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