Octave Beauchamp, Vogel, Paul Acker - Les Contemporains célèvres [Album Lefevre-Utile] - 1904

Lefèvre-utile Album – 1st Series – Famous Contemporaries -SARAH BERNHARDT …
MUCHA cover 1904
Lefèvre-Utile Album – First series – Famous Contemporaries. Complete .
Portraits – Autographs – Illustrated biographical sketches of contemporary celebrities.

P. , Publications Octave Beauchamp, G. de Malherbe, printer, January 1904, 1 vol. in-4° (330 x 250 mm) bound, green cloth spine, titled, wooden boards, illustrated in color, beveled edges, openwork round on the upper board revealing a portrait of a woman engraved in relief in medallion, Sarah Bernhardt in Princess distant, according to Mucha's painting, unpaginated.

Very nice copy.

Portraits and biographical sketches of Paul Acker – Illustrations by Vogel – Ornaments by Habert-Dys, Manuel Orazi and Fraikin – Autographs from the Lefèvre-Utile Collection, collected by MM. R. Stenger and G. Haranchipy.

Each of the 28 portraits consists of a text printed on beautiful laid paper and a photographic portrait of the celebrity, a facsimile of an autograph and color ornaments on paper laid down on the facing page.

Celebrities: Victorien Sardou – Sarah Bernhardt – François Coppée - Mme Edmond Adam – Anatole France – Duchess of Uzès – Jules Lemaître – Réjane – Jules Claretie – Mme Segond-Weber – Jean Richepin – Marthe Brandès – Coquelin Aîné – Jeanne Granier – Jules Massenet – Aïno Ackté – Mounet-Sully – Jane Hading – J.
-L. Gérôme – Jane Hatto – Antonin Mercié – Marie Delna – Luc-Olivier Merson – Mme Sibyl-Sanderson – F.
-A. Bartholdi – Mme Carrère-Xanrof – Alfred Capus – Queen Ranavalo.

Very beautiful album entirely in the Art Nouveau spirit. 2024-04-17 14: 44: 25 2024-04-18 12: 49: 29