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Small folio (slipcase 36.5 x 31 cm, self-covers 35 x 29 cm, pages 34.8 x 28.2 cm). No. 10 of 125 numbered examples (and 8 additional marked A-H for collaborators) all on vélin chiffon de Mandeure, illustrated with 35 designs by Jules Pascin (of which 10 full-page and 1 hand-colored; an additional vignette on the front cover is a reduction of one in the text). Heavy cream vélin self-covers with possibly original glassine (vignette in grey on front cover and decorative title in grey on spine), chemise and slipcase covered with burgundy bookcloth, dark purple morocco label lettered and ruled in gilt on slipcase spine. Collates 26 ff. loose in gatherings of twos, complete: [2 ll. (blank)], 1 l. (half-title recto), 1 l. (title recto with hand-colored vignette), pp. 1-92 with 10 full-page plates and 24 text vignettes, all in grey, 1 l. (colophon recto), [1 l. (blank)], printed letterpress with decorative chapter headings framed in grey and grey page numbers. Slight darkening around paper margins within, some wear at tips of self-covers, 2 cm tears top and bottom gutter of first folio where inserted into front cover, slight edgewear and label wear on slipcase with minor darkening to spine and margins, overall a very good copy, excellent within, bright and without any foxing anywhere. Provenance: Edward Powis Jones and Anne Keating Jones. In 1910 Paul Cassirer published a Berlin edition, Aus den Memoiren des Herrn Von Schnabelewopsky, with 35 illustrations by Pascin denominated "Lithographiche Zeichnungen." The illustrations in Jacques Haumont's present French edition of 1948 have sometimes incorrectly been described as different from the 1910 examples and as woodcuts. A collation of the "lithographic drawings" in the German edition of 1910 reveals that every illustration from 1910 is also present here, although the colored title plate here is not colored in the 1910 edition, six plates colored in the 1910 edition are here in grey, and the double-page "Harem" scene from the 1910 edition is here on a single full page. The present edition, then, sets forth Pascin's vibrant art of 1910 on the cusp of fauvism and expressionism. Seller Inventory # ABE-1531770757030
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