VAN MAELE, Martin (1863-1926) -- [HARAUCOURT, Edmond (1856-1941) under the pseudonym of:] Le Sire de CHAMBLEY. La Legende des sexes. Poëmes Hystériques. Brussels [but Paris]: for the author, 1882 [but c.1908].
VAN MAELE, Martin (1863-1926) -- [HARAUCOURT, Edmond (1856-1941) under the pseudonym of:] Le Sire de CHAMBLEY. La Legende des sexes. Poëmes Hystériques. Brussels [but Paris]: for the author, 1882 [but c.1908]. Octavo (225 x 135 mm). Bound together with 12 plates printed in colour and a duplicate monochrome suite [i.e. 24 in total] all by Van Maele, and with an etching bound as frontispiece by Félicien Rops Contemporary green morocco, original printed wrappers bound in, the front cover with an Art Nouveau design applied in variously-coloured leather, spine and back cover with a rose applied in leather, the spine with raised bands and lettered directly in gilt, applied morocco turn-ins, top edge gilt (spine faded evenly to brown, board edges less so, wrappers with some browning and spotting). Provenance : neat inscription in purple ink on a blank and front wrapper. VAN MAELE’S ‘PETITE SUITE DE LA LEGENDE’, IN TWO STATES: COLOURED AND UNCOLOURED, AND IN AN ATTRACTIVE ART NOUVEAU BINDING, this with a subtly erotic design on the front cover. Van Maele’s engravings for this book are among his finest, and characteristically surreal, dark, and humorous. According to a book in preparation, Martin van Maele, le diable se cache dans les détails , the series first appeared in a larger format with fewer plates, the 'Grande suite' in 1905 or 1906; Van Maele then redrew the plates, adding two designs in 1908. The plates were issued separately and a complete set is rare. Here they are bound with a piracy of Haraucourt’s first edition of the text. The binding is almost identical to the Nordmann copy of the same work – the only other complete ‘petite suite’ that we can find at auction (Christie’s Paris, 14-15 December 2006, lot 250).
VAN MAELE, Martin (1863-1926) -- [HARAUCOURT, Edmond (1856-1941) under the pseudonym of:] Le Sire de CHAMBLEY. La Legende des sexes. Poëmes Hystériques. Brussels [but Paris]: for the author, 1882 [but c.1908].
VAN MAELE, Martin (1863-1926) -- [HARAUCOURT, Edmond (1856-1941) under the pseudonym of:] Le Sire de CHAMBLEY. La Legende des sexes. Poëmes Hystériques. Brussels [but Paris]: for the author, 1882 [but c.1908]. Octavo (225 x 135 mm). Bound together with 12 plates printed in colour and a duplicate monochrome suite [i.e. 24 in total] all by Van Maele, and with an etching bound as frontispiece by Félicien Rops Contemporary green morocco, original printed wrappers bound in, the front cover with an Art Nouveau design applied in variously-coloured leather, spine and back cover with a rose applied in leather, the spine with raised bands and lettered directly in gilt, applied morocco turn-ins, top edge gilt (spine faded evenly to brown, board edges less so, wrappers with some browning and spotting). Provenance : neat inscription in purple ink on a blank and front wrapper. VAN MAELE’S ‘PETITE SUITE DE LA LEGENDE’, IN TWO STATES: COLOURED AND UNCOLOURED, AND IN AN ATTRACTIVE ART NOUVEAU BINDING, this with a subtly erotic design on the front cover. Van Maele’s engravings for this book are among his finest, and characteristically surreal, dark, and humorous. According to a book in preparation, Martin van Maele, le diable se cache dans les détails , the series first appeared in a larger format with fewer plates, the 'Grande suite' in 1905 or 1906; Van Maele then redrew the plates, adding two designs in 1908. The plates were issued separately and a complete set is rare. Here they are bound with a piracy of Haraucourt’s first edition of the text. The binding is almost identical to the Nordmann copy of the same work – the only other complete ‘petite suite’ that we can find at auction (Christie’s Paris, 14-15 December 2006, lot 250).
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