Legatura di René Kieffer per Les aventures du Roi Pausole

Features

Author:  René Kieffer, Pierre Louÿs

Publisher:  Eugène Fasquelle Editeur

Place of printing:  Paris

Year of publication:  1901

Necklace:  Bibliotheque-Charpentier

Product Condition:
Volume in more than good condition. Full brown leather binding with golden and colored embossed design on the plates, gold title on the spine and golden frieze with signature on the backplates, in excellent condition: some pale dark stains on the front plate. The volume is enclosed in a cardboard slipcase with leather edges in fair condition: some peeling on the edges and on the front plate. Small paper cataloging label on the front cover. Golden head cut, traces of dust on the cuts. The editorial paperback has been preserved. Well preserved papers, browned by time.

Pages:  (5cc),(8),404,(5cc)

Format:  In the sixteenth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  18
Width:  12

Description

The peculiar value of this volume lies in both its content and its presentation. The novel Les aventures du roi Pausole, the last bizarre novel with an erotic atmosphere published during his lifetime by the poet and novelist Pierre Louÿs, appears here in its first edition. The binding that contains the usual poor editorial paperback of the Bibliotheque-Charpentier series by the publisher Fasquelle is a small masterpiece; on the reverse of the flyleaf we find the label of one of the most important bookbinding workshops in Paris in the early 1900s: René Kieffer Reliures d'Art 18, Rue Seguier, Paris. René Kieffer (1876-1963) began working under the guidance of Marius-Michel, from whom he learned the technique of colored mosaic moroccans which also appears in our binding. This work therefore dates back to the beginning of his career; a great entrepreneur as well as artist, in 1909 he founded his own publishing house specializing in illustrated luxury editions embellished with his splendid bindings; having switched to a style close to Art Deco around the 1920s, his binding atelier produced more than 2000 works a year.

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