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5. Pierre Legrain and Art Deco Bookbinding
Henri Marius Michel, binding decorated with floral design, on JorisKarl
Huysmans, À rebours, illustrated by Auguste Lepère (Paris: Les
Cent bibliophiles, 1903). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan
Library.
Charles Meunier, doublure depicting a Parisian bookstall, in Octave
Uzanne, Physiologies des quais de Paris, illustrated by Émile Mas
and with an engraving by Georges Henri Manesse (Paris: LibrairesImprimeurs
Réunies, 1893). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan
Library.
Émile Maylander, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with
center and corner ornaments within a border, on Franz Toussaint, Le
jardin des caresses, illustrated by Léon Carré (Paris: H. Piazza, 1914).
Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Charles Meunier, upper cover and spine of binding (1924) decorated
with a panel based on one of Louis Legrand's etchings, on Erastène
Ramiro, Faune parisienne, illustrated by Legrand (Paris: Gustave Pellet,
1901). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Pierre Legrain, upper covers of four bindings with lettering, executed
by René Kieffer in 1916-19 for Jacques Doucet, on André Suarès,
"Sur la vie: Latin et Sorbonne" (manuscript of 13 leaves), Georges Duhamel,
L'Homme en tête (Paris: Vers et Prose, 1909), Paul Claudel,
Le pain dur (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1918),
and Paul Claudel, L'Annonce faite à Marie (Paris: Éditions de la
Nouvelle Revue Française, 1912). Reproduced from Pierre Legrain
relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), plate 3.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover of binding decorated with circles and curved
lines, executed by René Kieffer, on Maurice Maeterlinck, Serres chaudes
(Bruxelles: P. Lacomblez; Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1910). Reproduced
from Pierre Legrain relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), plate 18
(upper right).
Pierre Legrain, upper cover of binding decorated with a black cross
(1922), on Roland Dorgelès, Les croix de bois, illustrated by André
Dunoyer de Segonzac (Paris: La Banderole, 1921). Reproduced from
Pierre Legrain relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), color plate C.
Pierre Legrain, maquette with a fountain design, for a binding for René
Boylesve, Nymphes dansant avec les satyrs (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, [1920]),
to be rendered in 1921 by René Kieffer. Preserved in an album of Legrain
maquettes, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, maquette with a design of crossed chains, for a binding
for Oscar Wilde, Ballade de la géôle de Reading, translated by HenryD.
Davray and illustrated by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (Paris: L. Pichon,
1918), to be rendered in 1921 by René Kieffer. Preserved in an album of
Legrain maquettes, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover of binding decorated with a buckle design
and mother-of-pearl inlay (1925), on André Gide, La porte étroite
(Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1909). Florence Blumenthal copy,
George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a
central oval of wood (1925), on André Gide, Isabelle ("4th édition";
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1911). Florence Blumenthal
copy, George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a pattern
of crossing bars (1922-24), on Octave Mirbeau, Le journal d'une
femme de chambre (Paris: E. Fasquelle, 1900). Gordon N. Ray Collection,
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Henri Marius Michel, binding decorated with floral ornamentation, on
Denis Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, illustrated by Bernard Naudin
(Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1924). Reproduced from Roger Devauchelle,
La reliure en France de ses origines à nos jours (Paris: J. RousseauGirard,
1959-61), 3: opposite page 90.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover of binding decorated with a geometric design,
on Denis Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, illustrated by Bernard
Naudin (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1924). Reproduced from Roger Devauchelle,
La reliure en France de ses origines à nos jours (Paris: J.
Rousseau-Girard, 1959-61), 3: frontispiece.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with irregularly
spaced parallel lines, on Paul Valéry, Monsieur Teste (Paris:
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927). Florence Blumenthal
copy, George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with diagonal
parallel lines (1927), on Anna Elisabeth de Brancovan, comtesse de
Noailles, Les forces éternelles (Paris: A. Fayard, 1920). Florence Blumenthal
copy, George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, binding decorated with crossing narrow bands (1927),
on Oscar Wilde, Deux contes, translated by Albert Savine (Paris:
Schmied, 1926). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with curved
parallel lines (1926), on René Boylesve, Souvenirs d'un jardin détruit,
illustrated by Maximilien Vox (Paris: J. Ferenczi & Fils, 1924). Florence
Blumenthal copy, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, binding decorated with circular designs (1927), on
Charles Baudelaire, Les paradis artificiels (Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de
Broise, 1861). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Pierre Legrain, binding decorated with serpent-like curves (1928), on
Paul Valéry, La jeune Parque, illustrated by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès
(Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1925). Florence Blumenthal copy, Spencer
Collection, New York Public Library.
Jean-Gabriel Daragnès, serpent vignette, in Paul Valéry, La jeune Parque
(Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1925), title page. Florence Blumenthal
copy, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, maquette with an abstract design suggesting flowers,
for a binding for Gérard d'Houville, Le diadème de flore, illustrated by
André-Édouard Marty and engraved by Georges Beltrand (Paris: Le
Livre, 1928). Preserved in an album of Legrain maquettes, Spencer Collection,
New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, maquette with a design suggesting a barred window, for
a binding for Oscar Wilde, Ballade de la géôle de Reading, translated
by Henry-D. Davray and illustrated by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (Paris: L.
Pichon, 1918). Preserved in an album of Legrain maquettes, Spencer
Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, maquette with a geometric design, for the upper doublure
of his album of ninety-six original designs and maquettes covering
1917-29. Preserved in the album, Spencer Collection, New York
Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, maquette with a geometric design, for the lower doublure
of his album of ninety-six original designs and maquettes covering
1917-29. Preserved in the album, Spencer Collection, New York
Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, lower doublure decorated with a geometric design, in
his album of ninety-six original designs and maquettes covering 191729.
Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover of binding decorated with parallel bands
crossed with parallel lines, on Paul Verlaine, Parallèlement, illustrated
by Pierre Bonnard (Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1900). Reproduced from
Pierre Legrain relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), plate 30 (upper
right).
Pierre Legrain, binding decorated with interlocking circles, on Longus,
Daphnis et Chloè, translated by J. Amyot and illustrated by Pierre
Bonnard (Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1902). Reproduced from Pierre
Legrain relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), plate 63 (lower half).
Pierre Legrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with an
angular geometric design, on Le cantique des cantiques, translated by
Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Reproduced from Rose Adler,
Reliures présenté par Rose Adler (Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau,
[1929]), plate 10 (right).
Pierre Legrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a
translated by Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Reproduced from
Rose Adler, Reliures présenté par Rose Adler (Paris: Éditions d'Art
Charles Moreau, [1929]), plate 40 (lower right).
Pierre Legrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a
stylized moon against the sky, on Georges Rouault, Paysages légendaires
(Paris: Porteret, 1929). Florence Blumenthal copy, George Blumenthal
Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Legrain, upper cover of binding decorated with a diagonal scallop
design, on Paul Valéry, Poésies (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue
Française, 1929). Florence Blumenthal copy, George Blumenthal Collection,
New York Public Library.
Rose Adler, binding decorated with angular vertical panels, gilded by
Adolphe Cuzin, on Frédéric Charles Longchamp, Les vices capitaux,
illustrated by Vassiliaky Photiadès and with calligraphy by Charles
Ducret (Paris and Lausanne: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1922). Spencer
Collection, New York Public Library.
Rose Adler, two bindings, the first decorated with a streaming band and
the second with a grid panel, on Philippe Auguste Mathias, comte de
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Trois contes cruels (Paris: Société de la Gravure
sur Bois Originale, 1927) and Prosper Mérimée, Carmen (edition
not identified). Reproduced from Rose Adler, Reliures présenté par
Rose Adler (Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1929]), plate 37.
Rose Adler, binding decorated with kicking limbs, on Colette, L'Envers
du music-hall, illustrated by Jean-Émile Laboureur (Paris: Au Sans
Pareil, 1926). Reproduced from Rose Adler, Reliures présenté par Rose
Adler (Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1929]), plate 49.
Pierre Legrain, binding decorated with spotlights and light-beams, on
Colette, L'Envers du music-hall, illustrated by Jean-Émile Laboureur
(Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1926). Reproduced from Rose Adler, Reliures
présenté par Rose Adler (Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1929]),
plate 42.
Rose Adler, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a panel of
short bands (1931), on Tristan Bernard, Tableau de la boxe, illustrated
by André Dunoyer de Segonzac (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue
Française, 1922). Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Rose Adler, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with spaced
horizontal and slanting lines (1948), on Paul-Jean Toulet, Les contrerimes,
illustrated by Jean-Émile Laboureur (Paris: H.-M. Petiet, 1930).
Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Germaine Schroeder, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with
a ribbon title over a check pattern, on Jean Giraudoux, Juliette au pays
des hommes, illustrated by Charles Laborde (Paris: Émile-Paul Frères,
1926). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Andrée and Jeanne Langrand, upper cover and spine of binding decorated
with a geometric band at foot, on Alfred de Vigny, Daphné (Paris:
Mme. Marot-Rodde, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with
parallel vertical lines massed at right, on Gustave Geffroy, L'Apprentie,
illustrated by Auguste Brouet and printed at Imprimerie Lahure (Paris:
Frédéric Grégoire, 1924). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan
Library.
François-Louis Schmied, maquette with a design of vertical panels, for
a binding for La création: les trois premiers livres de la Genèse suivis de
la généalogie adamique, translated by J.-C. Mardrus (Paris: Schmied,
1928). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, upper cover of binding decorated with vertical
panels, executed by Georges Cretté with panel lacquered by Jean Dunand,
on La création: les trois premiers livres de la Genèse suivis de la
généalogie adamique, translated by J.-C. Mardrus (Paris: Schmied,
1928). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, maquette with a depiction of King Solomon,
for upper cover of binding for Le cantique des cantiques, translated by
Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke
Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, upper cover of binding decorated with a geometric
pattern and a depiction of King Solomon on a panel lacquered
by Jean Dunand, on Le cantique des cantiques, translated by Ernest
Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke
Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, maquette with a design of a stylized garden,
for lower cover of binding for Le cantique des cantiques, translated by
Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke
Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, lower cover of binding decorated with a geometric
pattern and a stylized depiction of a garden on a panel lacquered
by Jean Dunand, on Le cantique des cantiques, translated by
Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke
Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, upper cover and spine of binding decorated
with geometric forms and vertical line of bubbles, on La création: les
trois premiers livres de la Genèse suivis de la généalogie adamique,
translated by J.-C. Mardrus (Paris: Schmied, 1928). Gordon N. Ray
Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Georges Cretté, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with floral
corner-pieces, on Marcel Proust, À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur
(Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920). Gordon N. Ray
Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Georges Cretté, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with bands
at head and foot, on Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées, illustrated
by Frank Brangwyn (Paris: Helleu & Sergent, 1927). Gordon N.
Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Georges Cretté, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with floral
enamel by Jean Goulden, on Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, XII élégies,
illustrated by Charles Guérin and printed by Marius Audin (Paris:
Cercle Lyonnais du Livre, 1925). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont
Morgan Library.
Georges Cretté, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a bird
above dots and lines, on André Suarès, Le livre d'émeraude, illustrated
by Auguste Brouet and printed by Robert Coulouma (Paris: Éditions
d'Art Devambez, 1927). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan
Library.
Henri Creuzevault, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with
horizontal lines, on Gus Bofa, Synthèses littéraires et extra littéraires,
introduced by Roland Dorgelès (Paris: Mornay, 1923). Gordon N. Ray
Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Henri Creuzevault, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a
geometric pattern incorporating lettering, on Paul Valéry, Discours
(Paris: Javal & Bourdeaux, 1928). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont
Morgan Library.
Henri Creuzevault, binding decorated with crossing diagonal lines, on
Francis Carco, Quelques-unes, illustrated by Louis Legrand and printed
by Maurice Darantière (Paris: Pro Amicis, 1931). Gordon N. Ray Collection,
Pierpont Morgan Library.
Henri Creuzevault, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a
panel containing a stylized landscape, on Maurice Denis, Carnets de
voyage en Italie, 1921-1922, printed at L'Imprimerie Lahure and by
Marcel Lacou and Émile Lainé (Paris: Jacques Beltrand, 1925). Gordon
N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Robert Bonfils, upper cover of binding decorated with letters in a
circular arrangement, on Revue musicale, Special Number for 1921
(Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française). Morgan A. Gunst
Collection, Stanford University Library.
René Kieffer, upper cover of binding decorated with letters over curved
lines (1927), on Blaise Cendrars, La fin du monde, filmée par l'Agne
N.-D., illustrated by Fernand Léger (Paris: Éditions de la Sirène, 1919).
Morgan A. Gunst Collection, Stanford University Library.
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