[Pierre LOUŸS - Léon COURBOULEIX]. Manual of civility for li - Lot 357

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[Pierre LOUŸS - Léon COURBOULEIX]. Manual of civility for li - Lot 357
[Pierre LOUŸS - Léon COURBOULEIX]. Manual of civility for little girls for the use of educational institutions. [circa 1927]. In-8 of 177 pages, red half-chagrin with corners, Bradel style, case (modern binding). Illustrated with 12 hors-texte in colour by Léon Courbouleix. This is a counterfeit of the original unillustrated copy published by Simon Kra, counterfeit without the justification sheet, and printed on alfa paper in order to add a suite by Léon Courbouleix (1887-1972). His career as an illustrator began with the publication of drawings, between 1913 and 1920, in the satirical newspapers Pages folles and Le Bon Temps. After the Great War, Courbouleix worked for several publishers - La Renaissance du livre, Eugène Figuière and Maurice Glomeau. He illustrated texts from classical and religious literature - Balzac, Baudelaire, Saint John, etc. It was probably around the beginning of the 1920s that he specialized in engraving and set up his presses in Montrouge, a stone's throw from the area between Porte de Montrouge and Porte d'Orléans. Jean-Pierre Dutel attributes to him a first suite of pornographic etchings, published anonymously around 1923: Lapsus Linguae (Dutel 1830). Marcel Seheur, one of the most important publishers of curiosa between the two world wars, entrusted him with the illustration of several clandestine works. Bibliophily then became the heart of his activity. The illustrator engraved and published La Maison Tellier by Guy de Maupassant himself. Then, while producing classical works on his own account, he successfully tried his hand at clandestine luxury publishing. Pia 865, Dutel 1917.
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