PIERRE LOÜYS. Les Chansons de Bilitis. Paris: Collection Pierre Corrard, 1922. Illustrated with 42 color designs by Georges Barbier wood-engraved by F.-L. Schmied, including 19 full-page plates. 4to (320 x 255 mm). Period full morocco gilt by Charles de Samblanx with multicolor morocco inlays on both covers, a.e.g. Finger-smudge on title-page, a few marginal foxmarks and occasional show-through from the wood-engravings, binding a little scuffed, joints separating. Limited edition, signed by the artist on the colophon, no 115 of 125 copies for sale from a total edition of 133. A gorgeous collaboration between the two Art Deco masters, François-Louis-Schmied and Georges Barbier Although production was not finished until well after the War, in 1922, many of the illustrations are dated to 1914 and are some of Barbier's finest early work. Only two other copies appear in the auction records for the last 20 years.
PIERRE LOÜYS. Les Chansons de Bilitis. Paris: Collection Pierre Corrard, 1922. Illustrated with 42 color designs by Georges Barbier wood-engraved by F.-L. Schmied, including 19 full-page plates. 4to (320 x 255 mm). Period full morocco gilt by Charles de Samblanx with multicolor morocco inlays on both covers, a.e.g. Finger-smudge on title-page, a few marginal foxmarks and occasional show-through from the wood-engravings, binding a little scuffed, joints separating. Limited edition, signed by the artist on the colophon, no 115 of 125 copies for sale from a total edition of 133. A gorgeous collaboration between the two Art Deco masters, François-Louis-Schmied and Georges Barbier Although production was not finished until well after the War, in 1922, many of the illustrations are dated to 1914 and are some of Barbier's finest early work. Only two other copies appear in the auction records for the last 20 years.
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