CHIMOT (Édouard) - COLETTE.
L'Envers du music-hall.
Paris : Francis Guillot, [1937]. - In-4, 277 x 220: frontispiece, 199 pp. (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Maroquin burgundy janseniste, smooth spine, burgundy morocco edge-to-edge lining, gray suede endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, burgundy morocco spine and bands folder, slipcase (Devauchelle 1947).
Very fine edition illustrated with 20 full-page color compositions by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), engraved by Louis Maccard.
Precious hors commerce artist's copy on japon, offered to Laurent Horny, bearing this justification in the art director's hand: "Exemplaire de présent hors commerce offert à Monsieur Laurent Horny. Georges Guillot."
Enriched with a black suite of illustrations, an erotic plate in two states, and this double dispatch from the artist and Colette:
à monsieur Laurent Horny // avec les hommages sympathiques // de l'artiste // Chimot
to Monsieur Laurent Horny // in memory of the author // Colette
Also included is a reproduction of a drawing by Jean Cocteau pasted on the first leaf after the cover.
A very fine copy in a lined binding by Devauchelle, produced in 1947.
A very well preserved copy.
Provenance :
Laurent Horny.
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