Joseph Hémard
(1880-1961)
VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. L' Homme aux Quarante Ecus [Dessins de Joseph Hémard], Paris: René Kieffer, 4°, limited to 530 copies, this number 117 of 480 copies on vélin, pochoir-coloured illustrations, contemporary black morocco by Kieffer, the covers with blind-stamped design of two naked girls amid trees, original wrappers bound in, t.e.g. -- Maurice RENARD. Deux Contes à la Plume d' Oie. Illustrés par Joseph Hémard, Paris: G. Crès, 1923, 8°, limited to 575 copies, this one of 550 examples on vergé d' Arches pur fil, pochoir-coloured illustrations, contemporary marbled half calf, spine gilt, original pictorial wrappers bound in, t.e.g; and 6 other works illustrated by Hémard in 7 volumes. (9)
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VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. L' Homme aux Quarante Ecus [Dessins de Joseph Hémard], Paris: René Kieffer, 4°, limited to 530 copies, this number 117 of 480 copies on vélin, pochoir-coloured illustrations, contemporary black morocco by Kieffer, the covers with blind-stamped design of two naked girls amid trees, original wrappers bound in, t.e.g. -- Maurice RENARD. Deux Contes à la Plume d' Oie. Illustrés par Joseph Hémard, Paris: G. Crès, 1923, 8°, limited to 575 copies, this one of 550 examples on vergé d' Arches pur fil, pochoir-coloured illustrations, contemporary marbled half calf, spine gilt, original pictorial wrappers bound in, t.e.g; and 6 other works illustrated by Hémard in 7 volumes. (9)