Voltaire, La Princesse de Babylone, Illustré par Henri Le Riche, 1930.

Eaux-fortes originales de Henri Le Riche.
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    • Condition : very good condition, bottom edges slightly rubbed, minimal foxing.
    • Illustrations : 41 original etchings by Henri Le Riche, including a frontispiece and 18 colour compositions, blue lettering.
    • Volumes : 1 volume.
    • Binding : contemporary half morocco, decorated spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original cover and spine retained.
    • Format : small in-4.
    • Pages : 151, (1) pp., 2 ff.
    • Publisher : Paris, Editions Biblis.
    • Date : 1930.
    • Reference : Carteret, Illustrated IV, 406.

      One of 210 copies signed by the artist, this one of 10 collaborators on japon. Copy justified G, enriched with a suite in black with remarks, on japon and a refused plate of nudes, two plates in sepia and two in colour. Carteret mentions additional "remarkable" etchings.

      Henri Le Riche, born April 12, 1868 in Grenoble and died in 1944 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French painter, sculptor, engraver and illustrator.He was a pupil of Eustache Bernard for three years at the Grenoble School of Sculpture and then entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Henri Le Riche was a pupil of William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury and won the Prix de Rome for engraving in 1888. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, engraving section, in 1935 and used the pseudonym Hirné for certain sculptures.
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Condition Used - Very Good
Language France
Artist / Illustrator Riche Henri Le
Illustrated Yes
Publicaton Date Jan 1, 1930
Year 1930
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Voltaire
Editor Editions Biblis
First edition Yes
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Half leather
Size 28 x 22 cm
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