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KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Kim. Translated into French by Louis Fabulet and Charles Fountaine-Walker. Paris: Librarie Delegrave, [1921].
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KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Kim. Translated into French by Louis Fabulet and Charles Fountaine-Walker. Paris: Librarie Delegrave, [1921].
Thick 4°. 119 illustrations (103 text; 16 full-page) accompanied by 121 original watercolor studies and 118 preliminary ink line or wash drawings by Charles Fouqueray, each inlaid and mounted on guards, publisher's prospectus at the end. (A few text leaves cropped along the bottom margin.) Green crushed morocco by Charles Meunier, boards with sunken poly-chromed cuir-ciselé panels of earthen tones, the upper panel being a portrait of Kim with Meunier’s incised signature and the date 1924 in lower left corner, the lower panel comprising a stylized array of Indian foliage, guards and doublures of dark blue silk brocaded to a lotus pattern, the upper doublure gilt-stamped CH. MEUNIER 1924, wide gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endleaves, wrappers, edges gilt; green morocco-backed chemise; marbled slipcase edged in morocco (joints of slipcase repaired). Provenance: Dr. Ernest Cadgene (sold Parke-Bernet, 30 April 1951, lot 410).
LIMITED EDITION, Copy No. 1 of 25 copies on Japan paper, from a total edition of 175, and the only copy to appear in auction records in the last 35 years, according to American Book Prices Current. The edition is a masterpiece of French bibliophilic integration of text, illustration and binding. Meunier, whose most renowned style was the cuir-ciselé found here, achieves his highest art in this binding’s stylized carvings of Kim and Indian-inspired motifs.
Thick 4°. 119 illustrations (103 text; 16 full-page) accompanied by 121 original watercolor studies and 118 preliminary ink line or wash drawings by Charles Fouqueray, each inlaid and mounted on guards, publisher's prospectus at the end. (A few text leaves cropped along the bottom margin.) Green crushed morocco by Charles Meunier, boards with sunken poly-chromed cuir-ciselé panels of earthen tones, the upper panel being a portrait of Kim with Meunier’s incised signature and the date 1924 in lower left corner, the lower panel comprising a stylized array of Indian foliage, guards and doublures of dark blue silk brocaded to a lotus pattern, the upper doublure gilt-stamped CH. MEUNIER 1924, wide gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endleaves, wrappers, edges gilt; green morocco-backed chemise; marbled slipcase edged in morocco (joints of slipcase repaired). Provenance: Dr. Ernest Cadgene (sold Parke-Bernet, 30 April 1951, lot 410).
LIMITED EDITION, Copy No. 1 of 25 copies on Japan paper, from a total edition of 175, and the only copy to appear in auction records in the last 35 years, according to American Book Prices Current. The edition is a masterpiece of French bibliophilic integration of text, illustration and binding. Meunier, whose most renowned style was the cuir-ciselé found here, achieves his highest art in this binding’s stylized carvings of Kim and Indian-inspired motifs.