L'Ancre de Miséricorde

Lot 160
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Lot 160 | L'Ancre de Miséricorde
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Madeleine GRAS (1891-1958), binder. Pierre FALKÉ (1884-1947), illustrator. Pierre MAC ORLAN (1882-1970). L'Ancre de Miséricorde. Paris: 1945.

Madeleine Gras binding, limited edition. No. 3 of 5 copies printed on Japon nacré paper, with an original watercolor drawing and an extra suite of the etchings on chine paper. From a total edition of 216 copies.

Folio (317 x 240mm). Illustrated throughout with color etchings within the text; plus the extra suite of etchings in black. The original watercolor and pen and ink drawing is bound at the front and signed by the artist in pencil, lower right. (A couple of chine etchings with light crease, occasional foxing, mostly to endleaves.) Full crushed black morocco with inlaid ribbons of dark blue and red morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, in an abstract nautical design, blue suede doublures, stamp-signed "Gras" on upper doublure, all edges gilt (spine sunned); original morocco-edged and suede-lined slipcase (slipcase worn at edges). Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 6 December 1977, lot 217.
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