Masques et Bouffons (Comédie Italienne). Texte et Dessins par Maurice Sand, Gravures par A. Manceau. Préface par George Sand
Sand, Maurice
Paris. A. Lévy Fils, Libraire-Editeur. 1862
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A superlative copy with the plates coloured by hand in the deluxe issue of the publisher's polychromatic binding.
This history of the characters and rôles of the Commedia dell'Arte was written and illustrated by Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld Dudevant, better known by his pseudonym, Maurice Sand, a name adopted after his mother's literary pseudonym, George Sand. A writer, artist and entomologist, Maurice Sand studied under Delacroix. His mother, George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) wrote the introduction and her lover Alexandre Manceau, a friend of her son's and many years her junior, engraved the plates after Maurice Sand's originals. This exceptional example demonstrates the remarkable publisher's binding to superlative effect with only some very slight rubbing to the spine.
Also included, tipped-in to vol. 1 before the frontispiece is a letter to his mother in which he relates a part of his visit to USA with Prince Napoleon.
According to Colas and Carteret, the work was issued in several versions: with the plates in black, with the plates in red and with the plates with additional colour by hand; the present version has the title dated '862 and the plates with additional colour by hand.
[Carteret III, 549 / 550; Colas 2638; Lipperheide 3223].Publisher's blue moropcco
This history of the characters and rôles of the Commedia dell'Arte was written and illustrated by Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld Dudevant, better known by his pseudonym, Maurice Sand, a name adopted after his mother's literary pseudonym, George Sand. A writer, artist and entomologist, Maurice Sand studied under Delacroix. His mother, George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) wrote the introduction and her lover Alexandre Manceau, a friend of her son's and many years her junior, engraved the plates after Maurice Sand's originals. This exceptional example demonstrates the remarkable publisher's binding to superlative effect with only some very slight rubbing to the spine.
Also included, tipped-in to vol. 1 before the frontispiece is a letter to his mother in which he relates a part of his visit to USA with Prince Napoleon.
According to Colas and Carteret, the work was issued in several versions: with the plates in black, with the plates in red and with the plates with additional colour by hand; the present version has the title dated '862 and the plates with additional colour by hand.
[Carteret III, 549 / 550; Colas 2638; Lipperheide 3223].Publisher's blue moropcco
pp. (ii), (viii), 356, (i), (i); (ii), (i), (i), 384. 2 vols. Large 8vo. (270 x 196 mm). Half-titles with printer's credit and publisher's note verso and printed titles in red to each vol., engraved frontispiece with additional colouring by hand to vol. 1, 'Préface' by George Sand, 'Avant-Propos', 'Introduction' and text illustrated with xx With 50 engraved coloured plates by Maurice Sand Original publisher's midnight blue morocco with elaborate polychromatic decoration by A. Lenègre with his signature gilt, front boards ruled in blind to surround an elaborate gilt vignette ('La Comédie' from the Commedia dell'Arte raising her mask after the frontispiece to vol. 1) beneath title and flanked by the gilt names of other characters, banded spine with gilt titles and floral decoration in six compartments, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.
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