REBELL, Hugues. *La clef de Saint-Pierre*. - Lot 263

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REBELL, Hugues. *La clef de Saint-Pierre*. - Lot 263
REBELL, Hugues. *La clef de Saint-Pierre*. First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece etched by Rassenfosse and 29 illustrations by Henry Detouche, André des Gachons, Joseph Sattler, and Ulm. Paris, Éditions de la Plume, 1897. In-8, paperback, printed and illustrated cover. 78 pages, 1 etched frontispiece by Armand Rassenfosse and 29 illustrations, including several black-and-white vignettes in the text and a few color plates as inserts, by Henri Detouche, André des Gachons, Joseph Sattler, and Ulm. Cover soiled, margins slightly browned. First edition of this ballet in five acts and eight scenes written by the French author Hugues Rebell (pseudonym of Georges Grassal de Choffat). It is illustrated with a remarkable etched frontispiece by Armand Rassenfosse and 29 illustrations, including, as color plates, 3 reproductions of watercolors by André des Gachons, a depiction of the priapic festivals by Ulm, printed in red chalk, 2 reproductions of a watercolor and an engraving by Detouche, and a composition by Joseph Sattler, reproduced in red chalk. The interior is clean and in good condition.
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