Margerit, Robert & Lobel-Riche — Lobel-Riche

Superb illustrated and numbered copy of this literary and critical tribute to the famous illustrator and engraver Lobel-Riche, in an elegant monograph which combines biography, aesthetic analysis and celebration of graphic art.The work explores Lobel-Riche's great collaborations with writers like Pierre Louÿs, Baudelaire, Musset or Barbey d'Aurevilly, whose texts he illustrated with expressive virtuosity and mastery of line which give the books a precious aura.Robert Margerit / Lobel-Riche. Plantin 1946.64 pages + continuation of the 89 pl. h.-tax and etched frontispiece.Very good interior condition, work enriched with a suite of 89 plates outside the text and frontispiece engraved with etching, title in red, marbled endpapers, edition of 490 copies on Rives paper.