ROSTAND (Edmond). MUCHA (Alphonse).Livre Rare Book
La section Stéphanoise de la société de géographie commerciale de Paris. A son secrétaire perpétuel M. Charles Gauthiot Décembre 1903.
19032253<p>26 illustrated silk leaves including title sizes from 140 x 170 m to 400 x 180 mm mounted within blind embossed frames on 22 white cardboards. The illustrations woven color images are after various French Fin de Siècle and Art Noveau artists like Alphonse Mucha 6 including a series of 4 leaves illustrating the seasons Ernest Meissonier Lionel Royer Achille Fould P. A. Cot and others. Loosely contained in cont. green half morocco portfolio with gilt title on front cover <em>La section Stéphanoise de la société de géographie commerciale de Paris. A son secrétaire perpétuel M. Charles Gauthiot Décembre 1903. </em>Doublures. Paste-downs with watered silk covering framed by richly gilt green morocco borders. Folio 540 x 335 mm. Ties lacking front cover rubbed extremeties slightly worn.</p><p>Charles Gauthiot 1832-1905 was a French journalist and secretary-general of the Société de Geographie Commerciale de Paris founded in 1873 by M. Meurand E. Levasseur C. Gauthiot M. Tourasse B. Garnier M. Dietz-Mounin E. Berge F. de Lesseps M. Peghoux. No other copy found unique a fine specimen of the French craftsmanship of silk weaving with only minor traces of use. Title-leaf with a yellowish spot in lower right corner probably due to the adhesive used.</p> Société de géographie commerciale de Paris
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