Mucha: Le Pater, with beautiful Art Nouveau lithographs

Alphonse Mucha:

Le Pater.

Paris, F. Champenois / H. Piazza et Cie., 1899. Large folio. (40,5 x 30,5 cms, uncut.) With 16 beautiful full-page lithographs in colours and gilt (title + 8 large pictorial motifs + and 7 pages of framed calligraphic text). Additionally with 7 illustrated pages in black & white + half-title + dedication leaf + 3 colophon and imprint leaves.

Entirely uncut with deckle edges, original pictorial wrappers, very fine. Spine expertly renewed, in a fitted box (Marlis Egli, 1998).

Of a total edition limited to just 510 copies, this is no. 238, printed on ”papier a la forme, fabriqué par les manufactures du Marais”.

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