The Designs of Leon Bakst For The Sleeping Princess A Ballet In Five Acts After Perrault (Music By Tchaikovsky)
Published by Benn Brothers Limited, London, 1923
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 863.50
Quantity: 1 available
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Limited First Edition Number 383 of 1,000 copies, of which 500 were Reserved For the United States of America. A rare collection record of the sets and costumes from Leon Bakst final work; Serge Diaghilev's 1921 London Production of Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Princess". His creations were an innovative theatre of visual delight. Bakst was greatly influenced by the court of Louis XIV, Moorish and Oriental creations and Russian Folk Arts. Frontis: portait of Bakst by Picasso with tissue guard. Title & List of illustrations page with colour vignettes by Bakst. Fifty-four coloured plates by Bakst on heavy stock and each with lettered tissue guards are all clean and intact. Cover: quarter velllum over blue cloth on boards with gilt titles to spine. Moderate soiling and rubbing to cover. Edges: gilt top-edge with some rubbed wear and marks; fore & bottom edges with mild foxing and age yellowing , now slightly browned. Moderate rubbed wear to extremeties. Boards fore corners with heavy wear. A few pages with some thin, marginal tide marks to margins. Ffep & half-title page with vertical fold crease near fore-edge. Just a few pages with faint and few only foxing and/or small light smudge. Binding is VG+ Large & moderately heavy book: 395 x 300 mm. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Designs of Leon Bakst For The Sleeping Princess A Ballet In Five Acts After Perrault (Music By Tchaikovsky)
- Author
- LEVINSON, André, author of preface. Illustrations by Bakst
- Publisher
- Benn Brothers Limited, London
- Publication year
- 1923
- Condition
- VG
- Dust jacket
- None
- Binding
- Hb
- Illustrator
- Leon Bakst
- Edition
- First Limited & Numbered Edition.
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Performing Arts > Music
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