[Hugo], Valentine Gross

Mouvements de danse, de l’antiquité à nos jours

Paris: Maurice de Brunhoff, 1914. First edition. 24 pp, [4] leaves of plates. Unbound in printed wrappers, as issued. Covers a little dusty, else fine, the prints bright and vibrant.

The first work illustrated by Valentine Hugo, then Valentine Gross. Four full-color plates, engraved vignette on the cover reproduced on the title-page, and 26 drawings reproduced in the text based on Egyptian bas-reliefs. Printed on fine Arches laid paper. The total print run is not specified, but likely quite small, and interrupted by the outbreak of the war. Item #2576

Price: $3,500.00