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Copy preserved in its publisher's cardboard. Full gray percaline, front cover adorned with a laminated polychrome composition depicting two young children having fun on a royal throne.
Condition: Beautiful cardboard, slight defects: caps and rubbed corners, slight traces of dirt on the covers. Fresh interior, without foxing. Plate between pages 20-21 out of order. The entire copy remains in good condition.
"Job's style combines a powerful epic breath with a subtle lyricism. The dynamism of his compositions, which plays on the point of view and the springs of the layout, exacerbates the dramatic character of his "paintings". gushing inspiration from his first sketches, followed by a meticulous phase of retouching, in order to obtain drawings of absolute precision and realism."
Ex-dono manuscript on the half-title dated 1914-1915.
[Job] Charles Clerc; Norbert Sevestre
When our great kings were small
Paris, Delagrave; n.d. (c. 1913)
in-4 (33 x 25.5 cm); 48pp.
Subject: Rare Enfantina ill. Job History Kings Louis XIV François 1st Joan of Arc 1913 67357651
