Jacques Anthoine Legrain (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No jacket. In French. #342/600cc. Folio of unbound signatures of Legrain's book designs, with 243 black and white images and 7 color plates. In a shelfworn slipcase.

paperback. Condition: Buono (Good). Cm. 34, pp. xlviii (2) 204 (2). Con 243 illustrazioni e 7 tavole a colori, il tutto su tavole f.t. Legatura editoriale in cart. leggero protetta da camicia in tela con titoli su etichetta al dorso ed entro custodia rigida. A fogli sciolti. Perfetta conservazione, in stato di nuovo. Tiratura limitata di 620 esemplari numerati (ns. 165). Book. …

Relié. 1 volume. In-4. 204 pp. Reliure plein maroquin havane. Dos lisse avec titre doré et date en queue. Tête dorée. Filet à froid en encadrement des plats. Couverture et dos conservés. Introduction par le Professeur Jacques Millot. Avec 243 reproductions en héliogravures et 7 planches en couleurs. Ouvrage publié sous l'égide de La Société de la Reliure originale. Très bon état. Etudes sur l'oeuvre et l'homme par Jacques Anthoine-Legrain, Georges Blaizot, Robert Bonfils, marie Dormoy et Jacques Guignard.Exemplaire hors commerce. …

4to. With 33 coloured plates and 32 illustrations in the text by Gus Bofa. Limited to 100 copies, on Arches and with a suite of illustrations in black. Of these, this is number IV of 14 hors commerce copies, containing a number of trial proofs on Chine. Bound in light blue morocco, with a design of gilt rays spreading in from a small central white inlay, one band inlaid in darker blue calf, wide inside borders similarly inlaid and gilt; brown suede flyleaves and pastedowns, gilt edges. In card chemise [some repairs to the verso of the chemise] and leather trimmed card slipcase. Jacques Anthoine-Legrain was the step-son of Pierre Legrain and took over the business after Pierre's death in 1929. They were at the forefront of the Art Deco and Modernist movement in French bookbinding. This is a stunning example of his work carried out on the smallest limitation of the rarest of Bofa's illustrated books; this is the only copy ever seen at auction, being sold by Sothebys in 1969 as part of the celebrated sale of Fine French Illustrated Books and Bindings, the Property of Senhor Nicolau Lunardelli.…