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Paris, Cres & Ciè, 1923. In 8th, pp. 177 with 10 illustrations n.t. and 7 plates included in the numbering drawn by George Barbier and woodcut by George Aubert. Contemporary half leather binding with gold corners, cords, titles and friezes on the spine, minor defects.
Specialist Notes
Numbered edition printed on heavy paper. George Barbier (1882 - 1932), student of Jean Paul Laurens at the National High School of Fine Arts in Paris, from 1912 he was regularly present at the Salon of Decorating Artists. He designed jewels and decorative glass and invented numerous sets and costumes for the music hall, for the theater and even for the cinema (his are the costumes for the Folies Bergère of 1923 and those of Rudolph Valentino in the film Monsieur Beaucaire of 1924). He also worked in advertising graphics for Cartier, Renault and Elizabeth Arden. He illustrated numerous literary texts, among others those of Baudelaire, Gautier and Verlaine. An exponent of Art Decò, he was deeply influenced by Greek vases and Indian miniatures, as well as by the works of the Russian painter and set designer Léon Bakst and the English writer and illustrator Aubrey Beardsley. See L. Carteret, Le trésor du bibliophile: livres illustrés modernis 1875 à 1945 et souvenirs d'un demi-siècle de bibliophile de 1887 à 1945: «publication estimée».
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