BARBIER, George.

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Dix-sept dessins sur le Cantique des cantiques. First edition, one of 25 copies on vergé paper and with the extra suite of monochrome illustrations, from a total edition of 240 numbered copies, of which this is number 63.Barbier transforms the Song of Songs into a sumptuous reverie both neoclassical and charged with the style of early Art Deco. Indeed, this is "one of the few significant illustrated books in which the Art Deco style already predominates published in 1914 or earlier" (Ray, p. 32).

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