DISTINGUISHED TYPOGRAPHY - Bloomsbury Auctions

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BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 131
131. Bossuet (Jacques Benigne) oR a i s o n s fu n e b R e s,
n u m b e R li o f xxxv C o p i e s o n Ja p o n im p é R i a l à l a f o R m e ,
from an edition limited to 220, wood-engraved coat-of-arms,
portrait, heraldic initials and decorations, many printed in
colours, bound in black goatskin, b y al a i n lo b s t e i n, spine
titled in palladium, top edge palladium, others uncut, red
suede doublures and flyleaves, original decorative wrappers
bound in, signed at foot of front turn-in but undated [1992],
board slip-case, 4to, 280 x 220m., Paris, Les Livres de Louis
Jou, 1939. £1000 – £1500
Lot 132
132. Carco (Francis) and Jean Cassou. no t R e am i lo u i s
Jo u, Bibliographie par Raymond Cogniat, n u m b e R 7 o f 60
C o p i e s o n hol l a n d e van gel d e R w i t h a n a d d i t i o n a l s u i t e
o f p l at e s in b i s t R e o n Ja p o n im p é R i a l, from an edition limited
to 525, printed in red and black by Coulouma using Jou’s
original blocks, wood-engraved illustrations, many fullpage,
one or two printed in brown, original printed wrappers,
uncut, spine a little browned, additional plates loose as
issued in original printed wrapper, small stain to fore-edge,
together in modern morocco-backed patterned-paper dropback
box, 4to, 330 x 260mm., Paris, M.-P.Trémois, 1929.
£250 – £350
Léon Pichon
Louis Jou was deeply embedded in the past, his contemporary,
Léon Pichon, could not have been more different. Pichon
was a puritan printer who employed others to illustrate his
books. His “typographie pure” set a trend that can be seen
in the founding of the Compagnie Typographique in 1931.
Lot 133
133. Rimbaud (Arthur) un e sa i s o n e n en f e R, number
149 of 100 copies on vergé à la cuve Van Gelder, from an
edition limited to 150, printed in red and black in Jenson,
decorative initials, list of subscribers, prospectus bound in
at end, bound in black goatskin, b y al a i n lo b s t e i n, upper
cover inlaid with three overlapping oval shapes of black cloth
embossed with jewel-like metallic spots and enamelled semicircular
metal disks at joins, palladium rules, spine titled
in palladium, t.e.g., others uncut, grey suede doublures and
flyleaves, signed and dated 2004 at foot of turn-ins, black
goatskin-backed board drop-back box, slight wear to boards
at corners, folio, 375 x 285mm., Paris, Léon Pichon, 1914.
£2800 – £3200
* * * Pichon’s first major publication at the age of thirty-seven,
was a commemorative venture underwritten by a phalanx
of France’s literary and bibliophile elite. Typographically
without equal at the time of publication, it hardly ever
appears on the market.
ex h i b i t e d: Tradition Emotion-Création. Reliures d’Alain
Lobstein, Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, 2004,
p.104. Ready too late to be reproduced in the catalogue
(which contains an introduction by Jan van der Marck), this
binding, mistakenly dated 2005, was featured in its own
display case at the end of the exhibition. Lobstein fell ill and
died at the end of 2005 so this would have been one of the
last bindings to leave his atelier in Civray-le-Touraine.