Portfolio of 14 original watercolour illustrations for Vers Libres by Raymond Radiguet. Painted on wove paper of different sizes, each mounted in a passe-partout 39,5 x 33 cm and enclosed in a flapped portfolio with a white label to front cover lettered "14 études originales | pour | VERS LIBRES | de | Raymond Radiguet | par | ROJAN".
For published versions see:
[LIB-2830.2021] Raymond Radiguet. Vers libres / [Illustrés par Rojan]. — Champigny: Au Panier Fleuri [i.e. Paris, René Bonnel, c. 1935].
[LIB-2827.2021] Raymond Radiguet. Vers libres / Illustrés par Rojan. — Nogent: Au Panier Fleuri [i.e. Paris, c. 1937].
Description: Hardcover volume, 33 x 25.5 cm, bound in grey cloth, vignette and Vertès signature fac-simile to front cover, unclipped ($ 17.50) pictorial dust jacket with black lettering, polyester jacket cover, pp.: [2] [1-4] 5-150 [2], 77 leaves total, 151 ils.
Title-page: VARIATIONS | Drawings, water colors, etchings and lithographs | by | VERTÈS | Text by | CLAUDE ROGER-MARX | { publisher’s device} | NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY | GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT ||
Limitation: limited edition of 1,000 copies of which 5 copies (A-E) enriched with one original drawing; 100 copies (№ 1-100) enriched with one original signed lithograph; and 895 copies (№ 101-1000). This is copy № 984.
Contributors:
Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist.
Claude Roger-Marx (Jewish-French, 1888 – 1977) – author.
Description: One volume 22.8 x 25.4 cm, in contemporary gilt-ruled brown half morocco over green buckram boards, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, printed in sanguine; pp. [6] [1-3] 4-234 [4], 36 blank leaves ruled red, 12 blank leaves; total 170 leaves; 35 mounted marbled paper samples on 10 sheets.
Title-page: THE PROGRESS | OF THE MARBLING ART | FROM | TECHNICAL SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES | BY JOSEF HALFER | WITH A SUPPLEMENT ON THE | DECORATION OF BOOK EDGES | Translated by Herman Dieck, Philadelphia {gothic} | BUFFALO, N. Y. | LOUIS H. KINDER | 1893 ||Edition: 1st American edition (and first edition in English) after two editions in Budapest (Austro-Hungary) in 1884 and 1890.
Contributors:
Josef Halfer (Austrian, 1846 – 1916) – author.
Herman Dieck (American, fl. 1883 – 1896) – translator.
Louis H. Kinder (American, 1867 – 1938) – publisher.
Publisher's flapped portfolio 32.8 x 26.8 cm, gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered quarter faux-parchment waxed paper over brown paper boards with pasted illustration after von Bayros within gilt arabesque frame. Possibly published in Vienna by Heinrich Conrad in 1905 or 1908. The portfolio contains the title page with a vignette and 15 loose wove paper sheets 32 x 26.2 cm of collotype reproductions after drawings by Franz von Bayros.
Cover gilt lettering: Choisÿ | le Conin | Erzählungen | am | Toiletten- | tische ||
Title-page: Erzählungen | amToilettentische | von | CHOISYLE CONIN | {vignette} ||
Title-page verso: Inhalt:| 1. Die Tabaksdose | 2. Viola de Gamba | 3. Der Bote | 4. Nicht drängeln, Kinder! | 5. Die blaue Feder | 6. O what a pretty like-place! | 7. Die Sonnenuhr |8. Der Temel der der Cotÿs | 9. Der Fetischist | 10. Jupiter und Europa | 11.Die Witwe | 12. Paroxÿsme-erotique | 13. Der Rivale | 14. Die rote Lehrerin | 15. Tantalus | Nicht im Handel. ||
Catalogue raisonné: The amorous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros / Part I and II. — NY: Cythera Press, 1968; pp. 95-111 [LIB-2246.2019]
Description: Hardcover oblong volume 16 x 23.3 cm with black pictorial paper boards lettered in red and white to front cover and spine, in an ochre slipcase sprinkled brown and lettered in black to front and spine; grey endpapers, pp. [2] 3-130 [2], with a bookshop ticket to back pastedown “ISSHINDō”. Illustrated descriptions of 100 Japanese sword handguards (tsuba) with brass inlay.
Title-page: 楽しい真鍮象嵌つば | 100 鐔 | 大谷定夫著
[Tanoshii Shinchū-Zōgan Tsuba | Hyakutan | Ōya Sadao cho] (Enjoying Brass Inlay Sword Guards | 100 Sword Guards | Author: Ōya Sadao)
Colophon:
Published December 15, 1999
Price: ¥3,800 (base price ¥3,619)
Author: Ōya Sadao (大谷定夫)
Producer: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha International
Publisher: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha Co. Ltd. (大塚工藝社)Phone 103–0016
Tōkyō-to, Chūō-ku, Nihonbashi Koami-chō 1–5
Tel. 03–5642–3511 (Representative)
Fax 03–5642–3618
Design: Takahashi Tōru (高橋享)
Photography: Kitami Noboru (北見登)
Kishioka Yasuhiro (岸岡保弘)
ISBN4–900298–03–4 C0072 ¥3619E
Subject: Ōnin tsuba; Heianjō tsuba; Suemon-zōgan; Ten-zōgan; Japanese sword handguards; Japanese sword fittings; Tosogu.
Description: 4to, 26 x 21 cm, hardcover ¾ brown percaline over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, publisher’s original wrappers preserved (bound-in), engraved bookplate “EX LIBRIS | Rodolfo …“ to verso of the 1st blank leaf. Printed in 1905 by Imprimerie Humbert Allegretti (Milan).
Collation: 4to; front wrapper, π3 (blank, h.t., t.p.), 1-684, back wrapper; total 275 leaves within the wrappers.
Pagination: [6] [1] 2-542 [2], total 550 pages.
Contributors:
Alessandro Baudi di Vesme [Alexandre de Vesme] (Italian, 1854 – 1923)
Adam Bartsch (Austrian, 1757 – 1821)
Ulrico Hoepli [Johannes Ulrich Höpli] (Swiss-Italian, 1846 – 1935)
U. Hoepli (Milan)
Description: One volume, 20.6 x 13.7 cm, pictorial glossy paper boards; pp.: [1-6] 7-480 [481] [7 advert.]; total 488 pages, ils.
ISBN: 978-5-4448-0627-2.
Contributor:
Вера Аркадьевна Мильчина [Vera Miltchina] (Russian, b. 1953)
Description: Publisher’s wrappers, 20 x 12.8 cm, serial design; lettering to cover: (white on sanguine) И. Л. ГАЛИНСКАЯ | ЗАГАДКИ | ИЗВЕСТНЫХ | КНИГ | (white on aubergine, black frame) | ТАЙНОПИСЬ СЭЛИНДЖЕРА | Символика числа «девять» | «В ялике» | «И эти губы и глаза зеленые» | «Голубой период де Домье-Смита» | Повести о Глассах | ШИФРЫ МИХАИЛА БУЛГАКОВА | Тема Пилата | Не свет, а покой… | Смерть Иуды из Кариафа | «Рукописи не горят» | «Жонглер с копытом» | (white on black) ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО • НАУКА • ||
Title-page: АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК СССР | Из истории мировой культуры | И. Л. ГАЛИНСКАЯ | ЗАГАДКИ | ИЗВЕСТНЫХ | КНИГ | Ответственный редактор | доктор философских наук | И. К. ПАНТИН | {publisher’s device} | Москва | «НАУКА» | 1986 ||
Pagination: [2] 3-124 [125] [126 contents] [2 colophon/advert.] ; total 128 pages.
Collation: 16mo; [1]-416; total 64 leaves.
Print run: 142,000 copies.
Contributors:
Ирина Львовна Галинская [Шмарук] (Ukrainian, 1928 – 2017)
Игорь Константинович Пантин (Russian, b. 1930)
Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков [Mikhail Bulgakov] (Russian, 1891 – 1940)
Jerome David Salinger (American, 1919 – 2010)
Iron tsuba of round form, slightly convex, decorated with persimmon (kaki), simplified Genji-kō (incense game symbol) and halves of plum blossoms (ume) in brass inlay on both sides, and with part of bellflower (kikyo) in openwork. Outer rim, seppa-dai, bellflower openwork, and kozuka-ana outlined with brass inlay; traces of lacquer to surface.
The symbolic meaning alludes to Chapter 20: Asagao (朝顔, the bellflower or "morning face") of Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (11th century AD). The events take place in the 9th lunar month (Nagatsuki) and involve the following poetry by Prince Genji: saku hana ni / utsuru chō na wa / tsutsumedomo / orade sugiuki / kesa no asagao [I would not have it said / that my heart has turned toward / a flower in bloom — / yet how hard it is to pass / without plucking a “morning face”!].
Measurements: H: 76.6 mm; W: 76.3 mm; Th.: 3.6 mm (seppa-dai), 3.0 mm (rim)
Time: Late Muromachi (1514 – 1573).
Iron tsuba of round form pierced (sukashi) in a chessboard fashion and decorated with linear (sen-zōgan) and cast (suemon-zōgan) brass inlay, including symbols of the swastika, flower-lozenge, maple leaf, pine needle, etc. on both sides; rim and openings outlined with brass inlay. Nakagō-ana plugged with copper fittings (sekigane).
Momoyama period. End of the 16th - beginning of the 17th century.
Dimensions: Diameter: 75.5; Thickness: 4.5 mm.
Description: 12mo, 17 x 11 cm, quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, marbled end-papers, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, embossed stamp to t.p. “COLPORTAGE CHEMIN DE FER”.
Title-page: AFFAIRE | PIERRE BONAPARTE | OU | LE MEURTRE D'AUTEUIL | AVEC PORTRAITS | DU PRINCE PIERRE BONAPARTE & DE VICTOR NOIR | Et nombreuses Gravures, telles que : | SCÈNE DU MEURTRE DANS LE SALON D'AUTEUIL. | LA CHAMBRE DE VICTOR NOIR, | VICTOR NOIR SUR SON LIT DE MORT, | LE PRINCE PIERRE A LA CONCIERGERIE, ETC. | — | Prix : 1 fr. 10 c., franco. | — | PARIS | A. CHEVALIER, EDITEUR | 61, RUE DE RENNES, 61 | 1870.
Collation: 18mo; odd [1]-918; 5 x 18 = 90 leaves total.
Pagination: [2] [3] 4-177 [178]; total 180 pages.
Contributors:
Armand Le Chevalier (French, 1802 – 1873) – publisher.
Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte (French, 1815 – 1881) – character.
Victor Noir [b. Yvan Salmon] (French-Jewish, 1848 – 1870) – character.
Iron tsuba of round form (maru-gata) with 8 openwork petals outlined with brass wire (sen-zōgan) and decorated with brass dots (ten-zōgan), on both sides. Seppa-dai and hitsu-ana outlined with brass wire.
Late Muromachi period (Ca. 1514-1573).
Ōnin school. Unsigned.
Dimensions (mm): 80.4 x 79.8 x 3.6 (center) 3.2 (rim).
Similar tsuba in this collection: TSU-0374.2018
Description: One volume, 8vo, 22 x 14.5 cm, in brown paper boards with orange and black lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, unclipped “PRICE | 30s net | IN U.K. ONLY”, collated [A]-S8, pp.: [i-vi] vii-xiii [xiv blank], 1-273 [274 blank], 144 leaves total.
Edition: 1st English edition.
Original title: Das Sogenannte Böse: zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression. — Wien : Dr. G. Borotha-Schoeler, 1963.
Contributors:
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian, 1903 – 1989) – author.
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (British, 1887 – 1975) – author of the foreword.
Marjorie Latzke [Kerr Wilson] (American, 20th century) – translator from German.
Methuen & Co Ltd. (London) – publisher.
Cox & Wyman Ltd. (Fakenham, Norfolk) – printer.
Description: Two parts in one volume, collated 4to, 26.3 x 18 cm, bound in quarter green pebbled morocco over green percaline panelled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt, signed in the bottom “L. Curmer”; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Part 1 is illustrated with a hand-coloured wood-engraved title-page by Porret and Blanadet and 28 hand-coloured steel engravings by Charles Geoffroy after J.-J. Grandville; part 2 is illustrated with a hand-coloured wood-engraved title-page by Quichon and 22 steel engravings by Charles Geoffroy after J.-J. Grandville, and two uncoloured botanical plates, unsigned.
Title-page: LES | FLEURS ANIMÉES | PAR | J.-J. GRANDVILLE | INTRODUCTIONS | Par ALPH. KARR | TEXTE | Par TAXILE DELORD | — | PREMIÈRE (DEUXIÈME) PARTIE | — | PARIS | GABRIEL DE GONET, ÉDITEUR | 6, RUE DES BEAUX-ARTS, 6 ||
Collation: part 1: blank, [1] h.t./imprint (PARIS WALDER), hand-coloured engraved t.p., [1] t.p./blank, 1-324, [1] contents/blank, 28 hand-coloured plates; part 2: [1] h.t./imprint (PARIS WALDER), hand-coloured engraved t.p., [1] t.p./blank, [2] intro., [1]-294, 302, blank, 22 hand-coloured plates and 2 uncoloured plates.
Pagination: part 1: [1-5] 6-260 [2] (total 262 pages), ils; part 2: [4] [i] ii-iv [1] 2-102, [2] [i] ii-iv, [105] 106-234 [2] (total 248 pages), ils.
Coloured steel-engraved plates:
Part 1: Bleuet et Coquelicot. Lis. Pensée. Tabac. Tulipe. Rose. Narcisse. Violette. Nenuphar. Laurier. Myrte. Marguerite. Camelia. Immortelle. Chèvre-feuille. Belle-de-nuit. Oeillet. Ciguë. Soleil. Fleur de grenadier. Lin. Eglantine. Pavot. Chardon. Fleur d'oranger. Capucine. Guimauve. Primevère – Perce-neige.
Part 2: Pois de senteur. Cactus. Dahlia. Sensitive. Fleur de pêcher. Aubépine. Vigne. Myosotis. Jasmin. Scabieuse & Souci. Traite des fleurs. Flèche-d'eau. Hortensia, couronne impériale. Verveine. Giroflée. Thé et Café. Lilas. Tubéreuse Jonquille. Bal. Retour des fleurs. Erratum. Pervenche desséchée.
Plates signed "Grandville del. – Ch. Geoffroy sc. – G. de Gonet, editeur" but some signed "Imp. Delamain et Sarazin rue Git le Cœur 8 Paris." Plates accompanied by tissue guards.
Gordon N. Ray: "Most of the plates show an elegant lady in a garden, her dress covered with an extraordinary pattern of flowers. She is sometimes accompanied by respectful creatures, animals and insects, even fish and reptiles".
Edition: 2nd edition of 1847, each part has separate pagination; imprint: "Paris. — Typographie Walder, rue Bonaparte, 44". Second "tirage", the volumes being paged separately; the first "tirage", issued also in 1847, is paged continuously. Point of issue: Table des Matières has "Imprimerte Walder." Originally appeared in 83 separate parts in pictorial yellow wrappers.
Contributors:J.-J. Grandville [Gèrard, Isidore-Adolphe] (French, 1803 – 1847) – artist.
Taxile Delord (French, 1815 – 1877) – author.
Comte Foelix [Louis-François Raban] (French, 1795 – 1870) – author.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (French, 1808 – 1890) – author.
Charles Michel Geoffroy (French, 1819 – 1882) – engraver (on steel).
Gabriel de Gonet (French, fl. 1847 – 1862) – publisher.
Typographie Walder (Paris) – printer.
Plon Freres (Paris) – printer.
Delamain et Sarrazin (Paris) – printer.
Henri Désiré Porret (French, 1800 – 1867) – engraver (on wood).
Jules Blanadet (French, 1824 – ?) – engraver (on wood).
Quichon (French, fl. c. 1850s) – engraver (on wood).
Catalogue raisonné: L. Carteret (Le trésor): p. 286; Ray (French): 198, pp. 278-9; Vicaire (Manuel): D III, p. 133-4; Brivois (Guide): pp. 147-150.
In collections: MET 1970.565.423.1–.2; Vanderbilt University; V&A L.755-1943.
Provenance: Léon Curmer (French, ).
Description: One volume, collated 4to, 26.2 x 18.5 x 8 cm, ¾ calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated flat spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved.
Title-page (red and black): LE TRÉSOR | DU | BIBLIOPHILE | ÉPOQUE ROMANTIQUE | 1801–1875 | PAR | L. CARTERET | Libraire de plusieurs Sociétés de Bibliophiles | LIVRES ILLUSTRÉS DU XIXe SIÈCLE | PARIS | L. CARTERET, ÉDITEUR | ANCIENNE LIBRAIRIE CONQUET | 5, RUE DROUOT, 5 | Novembre 1927 ||
Publisher's wrapper similar, in a frame
Collation: front wrapper, π4 (2 blanks, h.t./limit., t.p./copyright], [1] – 894, χ2 (colophon, 1 blank), back wrapper, orig. spine, ils. within collation; total 362 leaves within wrappers; 2 leaves of modern inset bound-in between pp. 106 and 107.
Pagination: [8][1-3] 4-712 [4], total 724 pages plus 4 pp inset, ils.
Content: pp. 1-25 – propos; 29-600 – bibliographie; 601-603 – table ills; 605-639 – table des ouvrages cités; 641-712 – table des artistes.
Printed by Imp. Lahure on November 30, 1927.
Contributors:
Léopold Carteret (French, 1873 – 1948)
Imprimerie Générale de A. Lahure (Paris)
Alexis Lahure (French, 1849 – 1928)
