HÉRÉDIA (José-Maria de). ROCHEGROSSE (Georges). Les Trophées - Lot 110

HÉRÉDIA (José-Maria de). ROCHEGROSSE (Georges). Les Trophées, a fine illustrated edition of this collection of Parnassian poetry, with an original watercolor by Rochegrosse depicting Salomé, Paris, A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, 1914. Large in-4 (31 × 24 cm), full midnight green morocco, spine with 4 nerves, central box mosaiced with a laurel leaf in havana morocco, gilt edges, endpapers framed in morocco with 6 gilt fillets, covers preserved (Blanchetière). Bottom board superficially scratched, slight spotting to nerves. Joints cracked, spine unstained. Illustrated with 33 etchings by Georges Rochegrosse, engraved by Eugène Decisy (a pupil of Bouguereau), texts beautifully framed with thematic decoration according to the parts of the book, numerous culs-de-lampe also signed Rochegrosse. One of 329 numbered copies on Arches tinted vellum, with the etchings with the letter. EXEMPLAIRE WITH AN ORIGINAL AQUAREL BY ROCHEGROSSE, depicting Salomé holding a tray with the head of St. John the Baptist, in the Orientalist style. The finest illustrated edition of this summit of Parnassian poetry, first published in 1893 and dedicated to Leconte de Lisle. Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) was a French painter of Symbolist and Orientalist sensibilities. The adopted son of Théodore de Banville, he worked with a number of literary glories such as Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Hugo and Flaubert, and was entrusted with numerous illustrated editions that are still prized by collectors today. His OEuvre is preserved in many national museums, including the Musée d'Orsay. Printed on wove paper by Renouard on the presses of Charles Wittmann.