Schwabe Carlos Illustrator (2 results)

ONE OF ONLY 100 LARGE-PAPER COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER OF THIS LIVRE D'ARTISTE, WITH 48 GORGEOUS ILLUSTRATIONS (of which 20 full-page and hors texte) BY CARLOS SCHWAB (Schwabe) IN THE SYMBOLIST / ART NOUVEAU STYLE. With a separate suite of the 20 hors-texte illustrations printed on Chinese paper. This copy printed for Mme. Robert Mirabaud, presumably the translator's sister-in-law. Large 4to. Loose as issued. FINE AND BRIGHT. Housed in the original (lightly worn) folding cloth portfolio (ties wanting). An outstanding illustrated book.…

Hardcover. First edition. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. 17 lithographed Art Nouveau illustrations hors texte and a host of decorative floral borders and drawings. Schwabe, a painter and print maker featured allegorical and mythological themes indicating the idealism of the Symbolists. Original wrappers bound-in. Regular edition outside the limited edition of 150. Bound by Blackwell, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, bookplate. CARTERET 73. MONOD 4397. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, matching endpapers, rebacked. Near fine.…