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The number 1 of the edition with the original pen written manuscript and an extra dossier with 29 designs by Chimot, drawings etc.
Ardance ou La valle?e d?automne. Avec vingt-trois compositions originales gravées a l'eau-forte par Édouard Chimot.
(Pour l'auteur, pour l'artiste, pour leurs amis. Design by the author, text printed in Paris by Émile Durand, engravings printed by Georges Leblanc), [ca. 1946]. Folio (322 x 250 mm).
With 23 colour printed etchings by Édouard Chimot. For the extra's see below.
Night blue morocco, tooled in blind, gold and palladium. The whole binding has a basic pattern of closely placed horizontal blind tooled parallel lines. On the covers is a vertical pattern of three growing connected circles composed of a central line of gold dots flanked by 4 parallel lines of which the inner 2 are of palladium and the outer 2 are of gold. Spine with 4 high raised bands. Author's name in compartment 2, title in compartment 4. Doublures of brown morocco, with a border of 3 parallel gold fillets. The blue morocco of the outside and the brown morocco of the doublures meet each other halfways the board edges and headcaps. First free end leaves of brown watered silk, second endleaves of gold and silver marbled yellow paper. Endbands of brown, blue and white silk. Edges gilt. Original wrapper bound in. (Signed on upper doublure in gold "jean lambert"). In matching slipcase.
The manuscript is housed in a matching blue morocco bookshaped box, of which the upper part slips off. Spine with 4 high raised bands. Author's name in compartment 2, title in compartment 4, "manuscrit" at the tail.
-The edition: Issued in strictly 251 copies "il n'existe aucun exemplaire de passe", all numbered and signed by the author. Our copy is not signed and not numbered, but printed on Papier de Chine, so this must be the number 1 in the colophon, which is the only copy printed on Papier de Chine. The copperplate announced in the colophon is not present. Parallel to this edition appeared als an edition illustrated by Gaston Hofmann, also printed by Durand, which is dated 1946. Another edition of Ardance is mentioned by the BnF, Paris, Baudinière, 1944.320p. 23 cm. This edition is undated, and can possibly be placed between 1944 and 1946.
-The illustrations: This copy is illustrated with an original drawing of Chimot of the final state of the frontispiece and 24 etchings (including the rejected etching, not mentioned in the list of illustrations).Next to 17 of the illustrations an extra suite in various colours with "remarques" is bound in, and for the plate to p. 110, 3 extra states have been added, which makes the total of the extra suite 20 plates.
Further is our copy enriched with the dossier "Hors texte Frontispice",which comprises 29 parts. The original wrapper of the dossier with the signature of Chimot is bound in. The first 21 items show the complete genesis of the frontispiece, printed on various paper. It consits of 8 drawings (1 in colour, the others in various pencil colours) and 13 etchings in various colours of the states. Many of them with directions and notes of Chimot, all monographed by him. The items 22-29 show the genesis of the title page. Some are printed, some are with cut out letters some a combination of both. Also here many have directions from Chimot. Some are printed on printer's waste paper.
-The original manuscript: It is kept in a wrapper with in the writing of the author: "Ardance ou la Vallée d' Automne - Manuscrit original de 67+269 pages J. de Montesquiou Fezensac".The undated manuscript is written in different colours blue ink on white leaves measuring ca. 275 x 215 mm. It is written in a very readable current script and thera are many alterings in the text. It ends with the signature of the author. The leaves are numbered in pen in the right upper corner.
-The author: Jean comte Montequiou Fezenzac (1902-1984) was from 1929-1938 director of a movie company. He wrote also a novel Sirocco. Ardance is an erotic fantasy for his lost Hélène.
-The illustrator: Édouard Chimot (1880-1959) was a French illustrator and editor. He said about his own work: "J' ai choisie la femme comme sujet préfére, puis unique de mon oeuvre". He worked in Art Deco style, and his etchings are made in a sophisticated and esthetic erotic style. His golden age was the period between 1920 and 1930 and counts among the very best artist of this time.
-The binder: Jean Lambert worked from 1935-1955. He was a pupil ot the École Estienne, where he studied with Charles Chanaut and Robert Bonfils. His bindings are quite rare.
-Literature: Fléty p. 103; Devauchelle III, p. 267.
-Condition: Spine of the binding slightly discoloured, few small damages neatly restored; Box of the manuscript: Spine slightly discoloured; 2 damages to the raised bands neatly restored; inside a crack in the box; Besides the mentioned small restaurations a splendid and unique copy in a radiant binding.
With 23 colour printed etchings by Édouard Chimot. For the extra's see below.
Night blue morocco, tooled in blind, gold and palladium. The whole binding has a basic pattern of closely placed horizontal blind tooled parallel lines. On the covers is a vertical pattern of three growing connected circles composed of a central line of gold dots flanked by 4 parallel lines of which the inner 2 are of palladium and the outer 2 are of gold. Spine with 4 high raised bands. Author's name in compartment 2, title in compartment 4. Doublures of brown morocco, with a border of 3 parallel gold fillets. The blue morocco of the outside and the brown morocco of the doublures meet each other halfways the board edges and headcaps. First free end leaves of brown watered silk, second endleaves of gold and silver marbled yellow paper. Endbands of brown, blue and white silk. Edges gilt. Original wrapper bound in. (Signed on upper doublure in gold "jean lambert"). In matching slipcase.
The manuscript is housed in a matching blue morocco bookshaped box, of which the upper part slips off. Spine with 4 high raised bands. Author's name in compartment 2, title in compartment 4, "manuscrit" at the tail.
-The edition: Issued in strictly 251 copies "il n'existe aucun exemplaire de passe", all numbered and signed by the author. Our copy is not signed and not numbered, but printed on Papier de Chine, so this must be the number 1 in the colophon, which is the only copy printed on Papier de Chine. The copperplate announced in the colophon is not present. Parallel to this edition appeared als an edition illustrated by Gaston Hofmann, also printed by Durand, which is dated 1946. Another edition of Ardance is mentioned by the BnF, Paris, Baudinière, 1944.320p. 23 cm. This edition is undated, and can possibly be placed between 1944 and 1946.
-The illustrations: This copy is illustrated with an original drawing of Chimot of the final state of the frontispiece and 24 etchings (including the rejected etching, not mentioned in the list of illustrations).Next to 17 of the illustrations an extra suite in various colours with "remarques" is bound in, and for the plate to p. 110, 3 extra states have been added, which makes the total of the extra suite 20 plates.
Further is our copy enriched with the dossier "Hors texte Frontispice",which comprises 29 parts. The original wrapper of the dossier with the signature of Chimot is bound in. The first 21 items show the complete genesis of the frontispiece, printed on various paper. It consits of 8 drawings (1 in colour, the others in various pencil colours) and 13 etchings in various colours of the states. Many of them with directions and notes of Chimot, all monographed by him. The items 22-29 show the genesis of the title page. Some are printed, some are with cut out letters some a combination of both. Also here many have directions from Chimot. Some are printed on printer's waste paper.
-The original manuscript: It is kept in a wrapper with in the writing of the author: "Ardance ou la Vallée d' Automne - Manuscrit original de 67+269 pages J. de Montesquiou Fezensac".The undated manuscript is written in different colours blue ink on white leaves measuring ca. 275 x 215 mm. It is written in a very readable current script and thera are many alterings in the text. It ends with the signature of the author. The leaves are numbered in pen in the right upper corner.
-The author: Jean comte Montequiou Fezenzac (1902-1984) was from 1929-1938 director of a movie company. He wrote also a novel Sirocco. Ardance is an erotic fantasy for his lost Hélène.
-The illustrator: Édouard Chimot (1880-1959) was a French illustrator and editor. He said about his own work: "J' ai choisie la femme comme sujet préfére, puis unique de mon oeuvre". He worked in Art Deco style, and his etchings are made in a sophisticated and esthetic erotic style. His golden age was the period between 1920 and 1930 and counts among the very best artist of this time.
-The binder: Jean Lambert worked from 1935-1955. He was a pupil ot the École Estienne, where he studied with Charles Chanaut and Robert Bonfils. His bindings are quite rare.
-Literature: Fléty p. 103; Devauchelle III, p. 267.
-Condition: Spine of the binding slightly discoloured, few small damages neatly restored; Box of the manuscript: Spine slightly discoloured; 2 damages to the raised bands neatly restored; inside a crack in the box; Besides the mentioned small restaurations a splendid and unique copy in a radiant binding.
€ 5.500
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