SOLOMKO. SAMAIN (Albert). Aux flancs du vase. Paris, Libr. e - Lot 625

SOLOMKO. SAMAIN (Albert). Aux flancs du vase. Paris, Libr. es Amateurs - Ferroud, 1922. In-4, [2] f., 108 p., post, blue duck morocco, five-ribbed spine, gilt author, title and date, fleuron-ornamented boxes underlined with fillets, gilt title and author, date on tail, fillet and fleuron framing at corners of covers, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (white marks on covers). Edition illustrated with 26 hors-texte compositions, including a frontispiece, by Serge de Solomko, etched by Edmond Pennequin. Issued in an edition of 520 copies: one of 50 on Japon reprinted with three states of the etchings (n°38), second paper. Sergei Solomko, known as Serge de Solomko, a Russian draftsman exiled in France, produced galant illustrations and theater costumes until his death in 1928.