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Lot 20
[BINDING-TOULOUSE-LAUTREC] CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES. Au pied du Sinai. Illustrations de Henri de Toulouse Lautrec.
Paris: Chamerot et Renouard pour Henri Floury, 1898. Copy 164 of 355 stamp-signed copies on Arches paper. Orange morocco by Cretté, both covers with a design formed from two Stars of David, the inner outlined in blind, the outer in gilt, a complex pattern of rules in blind emerging from the angles between the points of the stars, the tooling extending across the flat spine, which is lettered in a single panel with author and title; the whole protected by a matching kid-lined chemise and slipcase, edges gilt on the rough. 10 1/8 x 7 7/8 inches (25.75 x 20 cm); [4] ff. (including 2 ff. blank), 107, [1] pp. text, [2] ff., with the original lithographed cover bound-in, six culs-de-lampe, and ten lithographed plates. Light wear to the slipcase and the spine of the chemise, very minor spots of rubbing to the extreme ends of the spine, a tiny bump to the head of the front board, all in all a fine example, though lacking the suite that is called-for with the stamp-signed copies (this apparently never present).
A magnificent Cretté binding on Clemenceau's classic novel of ghetto life in Poland. Clemenceau himself appears twice in Lautrec's designs for the work.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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