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LOT 221
SOLD €550,00

[Copy no. 1, with original drawings] Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Les Confessions.

Illustrations gravées sur bois de Paul Baudier et Emilien Dufour. Paris, Éditions du Trianon, 1926-1927, printed in 475 numbered copies, this is no. 1 of 5 copies on Vieux Japon with 3 extra suites of the woodcuts, 3 vols., 356,(7); 275,(4); 220,(7) p., profusely illustrated with colour woodcuts by aforementioned artists, original wrapper, folio size [sic].

The portfolios of the drawings and the extra suites duststained/ thumbed and one portfolio also torn on spine. Highly extraordinary, entirely untrimmed copy with the following extras in 4 portfolios (for the three vols. and the drawings): (1) Seven original design drawings for woodcuts, of which 6 signed or monogrammed by Dufour and 1 monogrammed by Baudier, all 27 x 21 cm., in (browned) mounts (1x torn). Also the woodcuts in four different suites: (2a) In colour in the text; (2b) In colour as loose prints on Vieux Japon; (2c) In black on Vieux Japon; (2d) In black on Chinese paper, crossed out; (3) A suite of the vignettes in black on Chinese paper.

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