Traité d'enluminure d'art au pochoir

(COLLECTIVE WORK) Antoine BOURDELLE illustrated by Auguste RODIN
& Jean SAUDÉ & Georges LEPAPE & Marguerite BEAUZEE-REYNAUD
& Géo DORIVAL & SEM & BRUNETTA & BENEDICTUS & HALOUZE

Traité d'enluminure d'art au pochoir
First edition, one of 440 numbered copies, the only printing after 60 copies with supplements, our copy signed by the author on the justification page.
Notes by Antoine Bourdelle, Sem and Lucien Descaves.
Illustrated with 18 in-text pochoir illustrations and 14 demonstrative figures in black and white.
The chemise, with some scratches, is decorated with a pochoir by Benedictus, the endpapers are decorated with a pochoir by Lucien Chapuis.
The slipcase is split and its joints are fragile.

Our copy comprises 20 insert pochoir plates, some in several states, by Antoine Bourdelle, Georges Lepape, Géo Dorival, Madeleine Beauzée-Reynaud, Abel Faivre, Sem, Vignal, Auguste Rodin, Brunetta, Benedictus, Lucien Chapuis, Edouard Halouze, André Morisset and Abel Besnard.
The subscription prospectus of the work is attached, bearing a discreet numbered annotation in the upper left corner of the prospectus.
The signature of Jean Saudé is below the justification of the print.
Our copy is enriched with an autograph letter signed by Jean Saudé with the letterhead of his art illumination establishment, to Antoine Bourdelle questioning him, respectfully, about the progress of his corrections for the forthcoming publication of the work.

A rare and beautiful copy enriched with several states of some of the pochoirs: 4 states for plate VI; 4 states for plate VIII: Les roses by Madeleine Beauzée-Reynaud; 3 states for plate IX: Un type disparu by Sem (the third state with a small piece missing to the lower right corner); two states for plate XV: Clair de lune by André Morisset; two states for plate XIX: Femme se chauffant by Abel Besnard.