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Feu Pierrot
A. Willette
1919
H. Floury : Paris
10.5" by 8"
183pp.
SUMMARY
A beautifully illustrated, first edition, autobiography by the renowned French artist, Adolphe Willette.
Colour Plates,First Edition,Illustrated
Overall Condition: Near Fine
This book weighs 1.5 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
US Postage: £ 23.99
EU Postage: £ 18.99
European Postage: £ 19.99
Asia Postage: £ 31.99
Worldwide Postage: £ 32.99
DESCRIPTION
The first edition.
In full red cloth binding with gilt lettering.
With an illustrated title page, colour portrait frontispiece and numerous vignette illustrations throughout. In addition to 47 full page illustrations, some of which are in colour and printed on handmade paper. Collated complete.
An autobiography by the French painter and caricaturist, Adolphe Willette. Willette is best known as the architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. His graphical works made Pierrot, the pantomime character, a fictional hero of France.
With a bookplate to the front paste down and stamp to the front free endpaper from the Royal College of Art in London.
CONDITION
In full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with light shelf wear to the edges and some fading to the spine. Book stamp to the front paste-down and library stamp to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age-toned to the edges but otherwise very bright and clean. Closed tear to the bottom of page 37.
Overall Condition: Near Fine
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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