RÉGNIER (Henri de) and CALBET (Antoine). La Sandale ailée. I - Lot 258

RÉGNIER (Henri de) and CALBET (Antoine). La Sandale ailée. Illustrations by A. Calbet. Admirable edition given by Charles Meunier and illustrated by Antoine Calbet, one of 125 copies reserved for members of the Société, this one nominative for Maurice Quarré, accompanied by a monochrome suite of the 19 compositions and enriched with 4 original drawings by Antoine Calbet, perfectly established by Conil et Septier in an elegant Jansenist binding with mosaic lining. Paris, Société des Amis du livre moderne, 1914. In-4 (210x250 mm), eggplant jansenist morocco, spine with 4 cold-framed raised bands, brown morocco lining decorated with a gilt fillet frame with two eggplant and brown morocco listels, one cut at the corners of leaves stamped and mosaicked in green, bookbinder's signature "Conil-Septier" in the leather, silk endpapers decorated with green and red embroidered plant decoration, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, covers and spine preserved, in brown felt-lined slipcase (Conil-Septier). 222 pages, 19 color compositions by Antoine Calbet, including 1 frontispiece, 9 hors-texte and 9 headbands, and 112 woodcut compositions by Calbet printed in various monochrome shades (cover vignette, title vignette, 54 headbands and 56 tailpieces), and a few miscellaneous ornaments. Poems printed in italics, title printed in black and red. Spine faded. Splendid edition published under the artistic direction of Charles Meunier and Léon Thévenin, entirely mounted on tabs and illustrated by Antoine Calbet with 19 vividly colored compositions, some of them erotic, including 10 hors-texte under captioned serpents, as well as 112 monochrome vignettes. Calbet's illustrations have been reproduced in color by M. Léon Marotte. Unique edition of 150 copies on strong wove paper watermarked with the name "Amis du Livre moderne", this being one of the first 125 reserved for members of the Society (N°112, printed for Maurice Quarré) with a monochrome suite (in black and yellow shades) of the 19 illustrations. Enriched with 4 original black drawings by Calbet (proofs for the headbands and tailpieces). [Carteret, Le Trésor du bibliophile, livres illustrés modernes, tome IV, 336]. From the library of Maurice Quarré, with his fine bookplate engraved in color on the first white endpaper. Remarkable lined morocco binding by Conil et Septier.