BONNARD, Pierre (1867-1947) -- MIRBEAU, Octave (1848-1917). Dingo. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1924.
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BONNARD, Pierre (1867-1947) -- MIRBEAU, Octave (1848-1917). Dingo. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1924.

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BONNARD, Pierre (1867-1947) -- MIRBEAU, Octave (1848-1917). Dingo. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1924.

Large 4º (382 x 281mm). 14 etched plates, and a duplicate suite of the 14 plates bound at the end; 41 etched illustrations in the text. (Two plates with mostly-marginal spotting and browning.) Bound by Jean Luc Honegger preserving the original wrappers, the spine and covers divided vertically into black and brown morocco panels, the covers with red and burgundy morocco onlays, some interlocking, about the dividing line; housed in a dark brown morocco backed case lettered in gilt (paper wrappers lightly yellowed).

BONNARD'S FIRST ETCHED ILLUSTRATIONS: 55 ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS INCLUDING 14 PLATES.

‘The free, spirited and informal compositions illustrated the story of a little dog Dingo with the lively imagination characteristic of Bonnard's animal drawings’ (The Artist and the Book, 30).

TIRAGE DE TÊTE: NUMBER 13 OF 30 FIRST COPIES ON JAPON ANCIEN, WITH A DUPLICATE SUITE OF PLATES, from an edition of 370 copies.

Garvey 30; Carteret Illustrés IV, p. 282; Skira, Anthologie du Livre illustré, 1946, 26; Bouvet, Bonnard. Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé, 90.
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