FRANCE (Anatole) - BRISSAUD (Pierre). La Vie en Fleur, with - Lot 146

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FRANCE (Anatole) - BRISSAUD (Pierre). La Vie en Fleur, with - Lot 146
FRANCE (Anatole) - BRISSAUD (Pierre). La Vie en Fleur, with Color Engravings by Pierre Brissaud. Art edition illustrated by Pierre Brissaud, in a splendid mosaic binding with garlands of flowers. Paris, Les Éditions d'Art Devambez, 1924. Large in-8 volume (255 x 168 mm). Dark green morocco with rich mosaic decoration. On the boards, a beautiful garland forming an oval medallion in cold-screened leather at the bottom, with a rose in full bloom in old rose morocco in the center, surrounded by bright red rosebuds and green morocco leaves. The sinuous brown listel garland rises along the spines, punctuated by flowers and foliage & gilded dotted lines simulating flashes of light. Spines and endpapers decorated in the same style. Witnessed gilt edges. Double slipcase with long-cornered half-maroquin folder, overlapping boards, lined slipcase. Binding signed Et. Jean. 295 pages. Spine of chemise and edge of slipcase a little sunned. Very fine edition decorated with attractive compositions by fashion illustrator and painter Pierre Brissaud, 10 original color etchings engraved in register, including a frontispiece, 8 hors-texte under a red captioned serpente and a chapter-head, and a black engraving on the front cover. Limited edition of 580 copies, this being one of 450 on Rives vellum (n°554). Under the pseudonym Petit Pierre, Anatole France recounts his teenage and student years. An attractive copy in excellent condition.
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