- Lot 241

Alexandre DEMEURE DE BEAUMONT - The illustrated poster. I. The Belgian poster. Part 1: Critical essay, biography of the artists with more than one hundred reproductions of posters and twenty-eight portraits in simili-engraving. Ornate letters and lamp-heads after drawings by Combaz, Crespin, Lynen and original drawings made especially for the book by the main Belgian artists. Part 2: Album. Toulouse, A. Demeure de Beaumont (printing house Aug. Bénard in Liége) 1897. 2 parts in 2 volumes in-8, stapled (covers soiled, one absent spine roughly restored with tape as well as the boards). 95, [3], xxxiii, [11] pp. Among the last 11 unnumbered pages are 6 pages of advertisements printed in blue. 28 plates printed in red. Only volume published.