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Les Petites du Ballet

Legrand, Louis

Paris. Pellet Editeur. 1893. c.1893
A very good set of Louis Legrand's rare suite of ballet studies.

From the edition limited to 100 copies, with each plate signed in pencil by Legrand and with the red circular stamp of the publisher Pellet.

[Ramiro 46 - 57; Lugt 1193].
Folio. (505 x 330 mm). 12 original etchings by Louis Legrand (as well as the wrapper), each pulled on thick Japon paper and mounted to larger sheets of card (sheet size: c.453 x 306 mm or the reverse; mount size: 502 x 234 mm), 12 etchings are signed in the plate. Loose as issued in original publisher's wrappers, front wrapper with Legrand's large etched pictorial title.
#47497

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