Chénier, AndréOeuvres poétiques. Avant-propos... Lot 1310

Chénier, AndréOeuvres poétiques. Avant-propos de Louis Barthou. 2 vols. With two original gouaches, four pencil studies and two original cover designs by Maurice Ray as well as two frontispieces, title vignettes and 34 head vignettes engraved by Louis Muller after Ray. Paris, Société des Amis des Livres, 1923. gr.-8°. Violet full maroquin volumes on 5 bands with gilt-stamped titles, fillets on standing edges, inner boards with mounted original drawings and flyleaves of violet moiré silk, three gilt edges. Gilt edges. Each in half maroquin chemise with gilt stamped R-title and slipcase. Signed: Marcelin Lortic. (One chemise with small tear to spine). Ray, Maurice Chénier, André Oeuvres poétiques. Avant-propos de Louis Barthou. 2 vols. With two original gouaches, four pencil studies and two original cover designs by Maurice Ray as well as two frontispieces, title vignettes and 34 head vignettes engraved by Louis Muller after Ray. Paris, Société des Amis des Livres, 1923. gr.-8°. Violet full maroquin volumes on 5 bands with gilt-stamped titles, fillets on standing edges, inner boards with mounted original drawings and flyleaves of violet moiré silk, three gilt edges. Gilt edges. Each in half maroquin chemise with gilt stamped R-title and slipcase. Signed: Marcelin Lortic. (One chemise with small tear to spine.) One of 100 numbered copies on vélin du Marais, this one printed for Viscount Guy de Montlivault. With his bound bookplate, also drawn by Maurice Ray and engraved by Muller. - The copy is enriched with two wonderful, signed original gouaches and four preparatory pencil studies. It also contains two designs in colored gouache for the decoration of the interior mirrors by Ray from 1925, as well as the folded menu of the dinner held on May 6, 1924, on the occasion of the Cinquantenaire of the Société des amis des livres, and a second etched frontispiece. - Extremely clean and unique copy due to the bindings and the splendid original drawings. With two original gouaches, four pencil studies and two original cover designs by Maurice Ray as well as two frontispieces, title vignettes and 34 head vignettes engraved by Louis Muller after Ray. 2 vols. Violet full maroquin volumes on 5 bands with gilt-stamped titles, fillets on standing edges, inner boards with mounted original drawings and flyleaves of violet moiré silk, gilt edges. Each in half maroquin chemise with gilt spine title and slipcase. Signed: Marcelin Lortic. (One chemise with small tear to spine). - One of 100 numbered copies on vélin du Marais, this one printed for Vicomte Guy de Montlivault. With his bound in bookplate, also drawn by Maurice Ray and engraved by Muller. - The copy is enriched with two marvelous, signed original gouaches and four preparatory pencil studies. It also contains two designs in colored gouache for the decoration of the inner boards by Ray from 1925, as well as the folded menu of the dinner held on 6 May 1924 on the occasion of the Cinquantenaire of the Société des amis des livres, and a second etched frontispiece. - Extremely clean and unique copy due to the bindings and the splendid original drawings.