Bonnard (Pierre).- Mirbeau (Octave) Dingo, one of 30 copies on Japon

Bonnard (Pierre).- Mirbeau (Octave) Dingo, one of 30 copies on Japon ancien paper from an edition limited to 350 copies, 14 etched plates and numerous illustrations by Pierre Bonnard, additional suite of plates on Arches laid paper at end, original pictorial wrappers bound in, black morocco by Madeleine Gras, with geometric white lines and 2 parallel red morocco inlaid lines down the centre of both covers, spine with similar red morocco parallel strips as labels lettered in gilt, plain red morocco doublures, black silk endpapers, g.e., folio, Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1924. *** A striking copy of this important livre d'artiste with Bonnard's first etched illustrations enhancing the story of a little dog called Dingo "with the lively imagination characteristic of Bonnard's animal drawings" (The Artist and the Book, 30).

Estimate:£2,000

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