[miniaturiste] Siméon LUCE / Jean GRADASSI - La France...

LUCE (Siméon) France during the Hundred Years' War Historical episodes and private life in the 14th and 15th centuries Monte Carlo, Arts et Couleurs Editions, 1978-1979 3 volumes in-4 (26.4 cm x 21 cm) comprising 226-[3]pp.; 233-[6]pp. & 180-[8]pp. Print run of 2,500 copies numbered on Arches vellum. Full burgundy morocco leather, spine and boards adorned with cold-stamped decorations and fleur-de-lys in gold, linings and turn-ins of burgundy moiré silk, gilt head, case (publisher’s binding). Work illustrated by Jean Gradassi with in-text and out-of-text color compositions reproduced by stencil. One of the 150 numbered copies including an original color drawing signed, a grayscale payoff of the out-of-text illustrations, and a double color-plate mounted, this one no. 10, well complete with its certificate of authenticity signed by the artist on the half-title of Volume I. Very beautiful copy.

Estimate:£465.38

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