Album Lefèvre-utile – 1st Series – Famous Contemporaries - Alfons Mucha 1904 Complete

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Lefèvre-Utile album – First series – Famous Contemporaries.

Portraits – Autographs – Illustrated biographical notes of contemporary celebrities.

P., Publications Octave Beauchamp, G. de Malherbe, printer, January 1904, 1 vol. in-4° (330 x 250 mm) hardcover, green cloth spine, titled, wooden covers, illustrated in color, beveled edges, openwork circle on the upper cover revealing a portrait of a woman engraved in relief in medallion, Sarah Bernhardt in Princess distant, after the painting by Mucha, unpaginated, all preserved in a green cardboard slipcase from the publisher (used).

Very nice copy.

Portraits and biographical notices of Paul Acker – Illustrations by Vogel – Ornaments by Habert-Dys, Manuel Orazi and Fraikin – Autographs from the Lefèvre-Utile Collection, collected by MM. R. Stenger and G. Haranchipy. Each portrait consists of a text printed on fine laid paper and a photographic portrait of the celebrity, a facsimile of an autograph and ornaments in color on coated paper on the facing page.

Celebrities : Victorien Sardou – Sarah Bernhardt – François Coppée - Mrs Edmond Adam – Anatole France – Duchess of Uzès – Jules Lemaître – Réjane – Jules Claretie – Mrs Segond-Weber – Jean Richepin – Marthe Brandès – Coquelin Aîné – Jeanne Granier – Jules Massenet – Aïno Ackté – Mounet-Sully – Jane Hading – J.-L. Gérôme – Jane Hatto – Antonin Mercié – Marie Delna – Luc-Olivier Merson – Mme Sibyl-Sanderson – F.-A. Bartholdi – Mme Carrère-Xanrof – Alfred Capus – Queen Ranavalo.

Very nice album entirely in the Art Nouveau spirit.