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BOUND BY CRETTÉ WITH A PENCIL DRAWING BY SAUVAGE LOUYS, PIERRE. Les Chansons de Bilitis. 36 color wood-engraved illustrations by Pierre Bouchet

BOUND BY CRETTÉ WITH A PENCIL DRAWING BY SAUVAGELOUYS, PIERRE. Les Chansons de Bilitis. 36 color wood-engraved illustrations by Pierre Bouchet after drawings by sylvain sauvage, including title. Half-title/limitation leaf. 4to, tan calf gilt by georges cretté with panel design on covers formed by 3 pairs of concentric gold and black fillets, the outer 2 pairs accentuated with repeating small gold triangles, brown suede doublures and endleaves, foxed original wrappers bound in. Paris: Chez Sylvain Sauvage, (1927)

  • Notes: one of 235 numbered copies on vergé de Montval, of an edition of 287. Mounted on front endleaf is a signed pencil drawing by sauvage of a pair of naked women lounging. See also lot 53.

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