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- Lot 40
DENIS, Maurice - GIDE (André). Le Voyage d'Urien. P., Librairie de l'Art indépendant, 1893, full brown morocco, boards decorated with a gilt framing lace underlined by a sixfold gilt fillet, spine with 5 nerves, author, title, year and boxes gilt, gilt filleted edges, gilt head, marbled paper endpapers, cover, case (binding signed Bruno Scheer, Berlin). First edition printed at 302 copies. 1/300 laid. Book illustrated with 30 original lithographs in monochrome by Maurice Denis, including 2 full page. It is the first book illustrated by Maurice Denis, and the only one for which he engraved lithographs in cameo. It marks the beginning of the nabism which Maurice Denis wrote the first definition, in August 1890, in the review "Art et Critique". A very nice copy.
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