ROUVEYRE, André. Faces of Our Contemporaries. - Lot 281

ROUVEYRE, André. Faces of Our Contemporaries. First edition on Holland paper, the only large-format edition, featuring 136 portraits by the press illustrator and caricaturist. A sweeping overview of the intelligentsia of the time! Paris, Mercure de France, 1913. In-12, Bradel binding in olive-green half-maroquin with corner caps, smooth spine, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved. Binding by Alfred Farez. X and 287 pp. Spine sun-faded. First edition containing 136 sketches of celebrities. One of 20 copies on Holland paper, numbered and signed by the author (no. 12), the only edition printed on large-format paper. Preface by Rémy de Gourmont, for whom André Rouveyre (1879–1962) illustrated several books. Contains portraits of: Paul Léautaud, Henri Matisse, Colette, Auguste Rodin, Claude Debussy, Rachilde... A fine copy with wide margins.