Cyclamen flowers

LIMITED EDITION OF 115 COPIES ON ARCHES PAPER, 100 OF WHICH WERE RELEASED FOR SALE AND SUBSCRIBED BY A. DUREL, BOOKSELLER. THIS IS ONE OF THE 75 WITH SUCCESSIVE IMPRESSIONS OF A SINGLE ETCHING. THIS COPY IS WITHOUT THESE IMPRESSIONS.

The copy is enhanced with:– 44 plates of original drawings or frames in ink or color, including: 9 color drawings, one in black, one title drawing in black, 28 black frames, 4 color frames, and one plate adorned with 7 black tailpieces;

– the signed autograph poem Au Lac d'Annecy (3 ff. in-8);– the publishing contract with Lemerre and his receipt, Antoine Girard: a signed autograph letter

(one ff. in-8) dated August 8, 1898, granting him permission to freely dispose of the 115 copies of the illustrated volume of Fleurs de cyclamens for the sum of 200 francs and 5 copies of the work. As well as the receipt dated June 27, 1899, signed by Lemerre fils, related to this sum and these 5 complimentary copies;– an original overall photograph, in black and white;– 2 articles concerning this publication: one by Georges Vicaire taken from the Revue de publications nouvelles (2 ff.) and the other unsigned taken from the Revue biblio-iconographique (2 ff.).Also included is a signed autograph letter from the illustrator to Antoine Girard (2 1/2 pp. in-12), concerning an incident that occurred at Durel's.

Unique copy made for the publisher, in a superb doubled and mosaic binding with interlaced cyclamen stems by Marius Michel.

From the libraries of Antoine Girard (1962, no. 347) with gilded monograms on the doublure and Henri M. Petiet (1995, no. 158, reproduced).