J.-James TISSOT. - Lot 218

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J.-James TISSOT. - Lot 218
J.-James TISSOT. The Holy Bible (Old Testament). Four Hundred Compositions by J.-James Tissot. Paris, de Brunhoff, 1904, 2 large folio volumes bound in full Havana grief, spine ribbed and decorated with cold fleurons, plates decorated identically to the covers, the latter and the spines have been preserved, gilt head, large interior roulette wheel with bunches of reason in spandrels, moiré guards, rare small stains on the plates. Work illustrated with 402 compositions by J.-James TISSOT comprising 42 off-text and 360 in-text plates in colour, monochrome, black and intaglio. The plates are protected by captioned snakes mounted on tabs, some freckles and stains, 2 sheets of text with small marginal tear without gravity. One of the 500 numbered copies (n°463) on large vellum from Papeteries du Marais, containing two states of all the off-text subjects, one in intaglio printed in intaglio, the other in colour. All the off-text proofs are printed on wove wove paper, with special watermarks, bunches of grapes and initials of J.-James Tissot, with the Cercle de la Librairie stamp.
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