JANIN Jules - Lot 328

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JANIN Jules - Lot 328
JANIN Jules Rachel and tragedy. Amyot Paris 1859. E.O. of this work celebrating the career of the tragic actress Rachel (1828-1858) who had just died. Complete with the ten photographs illustrating the work. Large in-8, original endpapers, half publisher's chagrin with personalized first board decorated with a floral garland and representing Rachel in the role of Monime, small floral frame on the second board, smooth spine decorated with two characters, Rachel as Phèdre in the lower part and a character with attributes related to the theater on the top, gilt edges, small cracks at the hinges; ex-Libris of Jacques Crépineau. One of the very first books illustrated with original photographic prints, including 10 out-of-text photographs of the actress by Henri de Blanchère. The first one, in the frontispiece, represents her after a painting by M. Muller, the eight following ones show her in seven of her main roles (Hermione, Camille, Monime, Phèdre (2), Roxane, Athalie and Czarine), and the last one represents her in Cannet three months before her death. This copy is enriched with the cover plates of the book, unbound, and in a format smaller than the volume, as well as with a lithographed portrait of Rachel and a manuscript of 2 pages in-4, from the beginning of the 20th century, unsigned, on Madame de Sévigné
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