Quevedo - Pablo Of Segovia. Daniel Vierge And Pelletan, 1902. Illustrated By Daniel Vierge.

[VIERGE] - QUEVEDO (Dom Francisco de) - Pablo de Segovia, el gran tacano. Paris, Daniel Virgin and Pelletan, 1902; in-4, 230 pp., paperback, folded cover, in a cardboard folder. See the Art of the book P. 187. Beautiful illustrated edition of this famous picaresque novel, whose particularity is to be written in a baroque language. Here the text was translated by J.-H. Rosny and is illustrated with 120 drawings by Daniel Vierge reproduced by photogravure with copper retouching by the artist, using a process invented by Gillot. Edition limited to 440 numbered copies. This copy is unjustified on China paper (while the basic edition is on Arches vellum). It contains a continuation on China of the illustrations of Daniel Vierge. This book by Daniel Vierge has long been considered his masterpiece, in any case one of the very beautiful books published after the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. Very nice copy on China paper, certainly a copy reserved for the publisher-illustrator of this magnificent text.