Léon Maillard / Henri Boutet - Henri Boutet [Reliure plein maroquin signée Marius Michel] - 1894

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Henri-François-Victor Michel, known as Marius-Michel 1846-1925, is one of the most important French bookbinders of the 19th and 20th centuries. Victor Léon Maillard (1860-1929) was a French writer and art critic, co-founder of the magazine La Plume.

Henri Boutet (1851-1919) is a French draftsman and engraver, nicknamed the "little master of the corset" or the "painter of the midinette". Boutet specializes during the 1890s in the production of etchings and drypoints representing women in negligee, in the style of "la Parisienne" and has a small success with an informed public. The print is made in a limited edition. His reputation growing, Boutet launched his own publishing house and sold his productions to periodicals such as Le Frou-frou, L'Assiette au beurre, Le Pêle-Mêle, or artistic publications such as La Plume, L'Estampeoriginale, The modern Print or even the Collection of the hundred. It illustrates many almanacs (L'Année feminine), calendars, menus.

Léon Maillard, Study on some original artists, Henri Boutet, engraver and pastel artist, Maison Dentu branch, 1894-1895

In-4 (20x26 cm), 2 volumes: III-105 6ff, 134 pp 3ff., full morocco, gilt edges, ribbed spine, preserved covers and spine, morocco chase with quadruple fillet framing, inside cover and page of cover lined in canvas, binding signed Marius Michel. One of 500 copies on beautiful vellum paper, after 61 on japan, the copy is not numbered, certainly a pass copy, it is signed by the binder and the publisher: Marius Michel and H. Floury.

Very good condition, morocco slightly rubbed at the joints and corners 67537989 Read more