Title: Chansons Galantes. Ornées de 16 aquarelles par Rojan Author: Béranger, Pierre Jean de Place: Paris Publisher: Éditions de la Belle Étoile Date: 1937 Description: 159 pp. Illustrated with 12 full-page plates & four headpieces, all in color after watercolors by Rojan; plus black & white tailpieces. 9¼x7½, period ¾ black morocco & marbled boards with original wrappers bound in (covers and spine panel), spine lettered in gilt, attached bookmark ribbon, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. No. 662 of 1,500 copies on vélin Navarre. An attractively produced compilation of the erotic poems by the noted 19th century French poet, embellished with mildly risqué illustrations by Rojan--né Rojankovski. "He was the only poet of modern times who could altogether have dispensed with printing" – Robert Louis Stevenson in EB11. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to spine and edges, minor soiling; very good or better and still a handsome copy. Item number: 186858
Title: Chansons Galantes. Ornées de 16 aquarelles par Rojan Author: Béranger, Pierre Jean de Place: Paris Publisher: Éditions de la Belle Étoile Date: 1937 Description: 159 pp. Illustrated with 12 full-page plates & four headpieces, all in color after watercolors by Rojan; plus black & white tailpieces. 9¼x7½, period ¾ black morocco & marbled boards with original wrappers bound in (covers and spine panel), spine lettered in gilt, attached bookmark ribbon, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. No. 662 of 1,500 copies on vélin Navarre. An attractively produced compilation of the erotic poems by the noted 19th century French poet, embellished with mildly risqué illustrations by Rojan--né Rojankovski. "He was the only poet of modern times who could altogether have dispensed with printing" – Robert Louis Stevenson in EB11. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to spine and edges, minor soiling; very good or better and still a handsome copy. Item number: 186858
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