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LA MARSEILLAISE. CHANT NATIONAL PAR ROUGET DE LISLE. TISSAGE DE LA MAISON CHATEL ET TASSINARI

LA MARSEILLAISE. CHANT NATIONAL PAR ROUGET DE LISLE. TISSAGE DE LA MAISON CHATEL ET TASSINARI

by (GRASSET, EUGÈNE)

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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… Read More
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LES ENTRAVÉES

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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LITTLE MACHINERY
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LITTLE MACHINERY

by LIDDELL, MARY

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  • Hardcover
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Used
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Hardcover
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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,… Read More
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PICTURES OF NEW YORK LIFE & CHARACTER.
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PICTURES OF NEW YORK LIFE & CHARACTER.

by (NEW YORK CITY CARICATURE)

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Hardcover
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Brown cloth with black corner ornaments and border for large gilt ornamental central lettering. Recased with perfectly matched new spine and new endpapers. Large label on front paste-down retained, reading "This Album is the Property of This Hotel…" A beautiful fresh copy.Pictorial lithograph title page and 19 lithograph plates, all signed "G.W. Averell & Co. del & print. N.Y.", facing pages of ads for New York merchants: wine importer, steamship lines, printers, tailors, tobacco and billiard table purveyors, shops selling Chinese and Japanese goods, and many others.Wonderful plates, each including several New York City scenes and characters: Jewish tailors on Chatham Street, Chinese opium den, immigrants at Castle Garden, park scenes, street vendors, Fulton Ferry, horse racing, boxing, theater, an African American and other ethnic types.
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LITTLE MACHINERY
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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… Read More
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COLLECTION DES PLUS BEAUX NUMÉROS DE COMOEDIA ILLUSTRÉ ET DES PROGRAMMES CONSACRÉS AU BALLETS...
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COLLECTION DES PLUS BEAUX NUMÉROS DE COMOEDIA ILLUSTRÉ ET DES PROGRAMMES CONSACRÉS AU BALLETS & GALAS RUSSES DEPUIS LE DÉBUT A PARIS 1909-1921

by BALLETS RUSSES

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Green silk over thick beveled boards with large inset color illustration from Natalia Goncharova's design for "Firebird". Endpapers color- stenciled with names of the dances, dancers, composers, and choreographers, and in the center that of the impresario Serge Diaghilev. Silk faded; a little edge wear on the bottom of front board. An exceptionally nice copy of this magnificent book.
A compilation of the most important special issues of the theatrical periodical "Comoedia Illustré" and souvenir programs for the 1909-1921 seasons of the Ballets Russes, compiled by the program publishers themselves, Maurice and Jacques de Brunoff. Explanatory forewords by the critic Valerian Svetlov.
Lavishly illustrated with photographs and black and white and splendid color plates, some heightened with gilt and silver, of the dancers, costumes and stage decor. Work by Léon Bakst, Valentine Hugo, André Derain, Alexandre Benois, Mikhail Larionov. Natalia Goncharova, José Sert, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.… Read More
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