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Lyons, 1899. Lyon: Bernoux & Cumin (1899). Folio, original paper portfolio replaced with royal blue cloth portfolio with original printed cover label describing the work laid down and original tricolor ribbons replaced; contents immaculate. One of 300 copies of this exquisite rendering of the French national anthem by one of the great Art Nouveau illustrators, Eugène Grasset. Printed title and four pictorial panels in the original mats bordered in tri-color ribbon , each measuring 13 by 9 inches, woven in fine silk with a technique based on the punch-card system used by Jacquard and following principles developed by Charles Babbage for his experimental calculating machine. According to a copy of a 1970 letter, which is included, from the curator of the Textile Museum of Lyon, the work ("ce véritable chef- d'oeuvre de tissage lyonnais") is comparable to the most beautiful woven portraits of the 19th century. The first plate, the title panel, shows a fierce Marianne, personification of France, flying…
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LA MARSEILLAISE. CHANT NATIONAL PAR ROUGET DE LISLE. TISSAGE DE LA MAISON CHATEL ET TASSINARI
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LES ENTRAVÉES: (THE SHACKLED, FETTERED, HOBBLED)
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FASHION POSTCARDSSet of 12 postcards colored in pochoir satirizing the hobble skirt of 1910. One used, dated 27 Oct. 11 "Here are some fashion plates of the latest styles".
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A LETTER FROM WILLIAM BLAKE
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One of 500 numbered copies printed in Centaur type by Harold McGrath at Baskin's Gehenna Press. Six wood-engraved portraits of William Blake printed from the blocks on Japanese Moriki paper. The text is Blake's letter to Thomas Butts dated January 10, 1802. Brook 37.
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LITTLE MACHINERY
by LIDDELL, MARY
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Black cloth spine and color pictorial boards in orange, white and black. Orange endpapers decorated with industrial cogs. Small, closed repaired tear on front endpaper. Remarkable copy of an exceedingly rare book. (A facsimile was printed in 2009 and is widely held institutionally.)With 62 pages; text and illustrations in sharp primary colors on facing pages tell the story of a little boy robot who grew up out of pieces of a wrecked steam engine, an old trolley car and a broken automobile. He has constructed himself out of the wreckage of technology: drill, saws, wheel, pliers, chisel, hammers, etc.Higonnet, Margaret, "Modernism and Childhood: Violence and Renovation" in The Comparatist, Volume 33 (May 2009), University of North Carolina Press. discusses the brilliantly experimental design of three Modernist children's books: El Lissitzky, Suprematist Story of Two Squares, l922; Kurt Schwitters, Die Scheuche (The Scarecrow), 1925; and Mary Liddell, Little Machinery, 1926. "(Liddell's) text plays with…
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LITTLE MACHINERY
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AMERICAN FUTURIST CHILDREN'S BOOKBlack cloth spine and color pictorial boards in orange, white and black. Orange endpapers decorated with industrial cogs. Small, closed repaired tear on front endpaper. Remarkable copy of an exceedingly rare book. (A facsimile was printed in 2009 and is widely held institutionally.)With 62 pages; text and illustrations in sharp primary colors on facing pages tell the story of a little boy robot who grew up out of pieces of a wrecked steam engine, an old trolley car and a broken automobile. He has constructed himself out of the wreckage of technology: drill, saws, wheel, pliers, chisel, hammers, etc.Higonnet, Margaret, "Modernism and Childhood: Violence and Renovation" in The Comparatist, Volume 33 (May 2009), University of North Carolina Press. discusses the brilliantly experimental design of three Modernist children's books: El Lissitzky, Suprematist Story of Two Squares, l922; Kurt Schwitters, Die Scheuche (The Scarecrow), 1925; and Mary Liddell, Little Machinery,…
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