Garvey, 76 ; Monod, 5370; Chapon, Le Peintre et le livre, p. 278; Y. Peyr\u00e9, Peinture et po\u00e9sie, p. 106 (“Ce livre est la trace la plus accentu\u00e9e du symbolisme, la ratification – par les Nabis du principe du livre de dialogue”).<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of this magnificent book, produced in complete harmony between author and illustrator, is also Maurice Denis’ (1870-1945) first illustrated book.<\/span><\/p>\n An exceptional copy inscribed by Gide to Rodenbach. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies on wove paper (this copy numbered 49). Less than a handful large paper copies (not mentioned in the colophon) are recorded: one or two copies on Japan (one of which is located at Harvard), and again one or two copies on China paper.<\/p>\n The work is divided into two large chapters, Voyage sur l’oc\u00e9an path\u00e9tique<\/i>, and Voyage vers une mer glaciale<\/i>, the latter being dedicated to “\u00e0 Georges Pouchet, qui y est all\u00e9”. Georges Pouchet (Rouen 1833-1894), natural scientist and anatomist. Professor of comparative anatomy – he is the creator of the Gallery of Comparative Anatomy at the Museum d’histoire naturelle – took part in a polar expedition in 1892.<\/p>\n Thirty illustrations by Maurice Denis<\/p>\n This first book illustration contains 30 tinted lithographs in the text by Maurice Denis to which is added the woodcut vignette decorating the printed cover.<\/p>\n “Denis’ first published book illustration. The compressed, elongated composition demonstrates his theories of expression through abstract linear design. After seeing Denis\u2019 unpublished drawings for Sagesse<\/i> in 1891, Gide requested him to illustrate Le Voyage d\u2019Urien<\/i>, and the importance the author attached to the artist\u2019s contribution is indicated by the title-page, which is headed \u2018Andr\u00e9 Gide \u2013 Maurice Denis\u2019. Here Denis best achieved his goal in book illustration, which he considered to be \u2018the decoration of a book, without servitude to the text, but with an embroidery of arabesques on the pages, an accompaniment of expressive lines\u2019. This little-known item is a masterpiece of Art Nouveau, the style of the nineties to which the graphic work of Denis and the Nabis made an important contribution\u201d (Garvey).<\/p>\n Important association copy<\/p>\n This copy is inscribed and signed by Gide “\u00e0 Georges Rodenbach, en hommage, Andr\u00e9 Gide”. Geroges Rodenbach (1855-1898) was a very famous Belgian symbolist poet and writer. Well introduced into the intellectual society of his time, he counted many writers (\u00c9mile Verhaeren, St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9, Alphonse Daudet, Huysmans) as well as artists (Rodin, Rops, Ch\u00e9ret, Monet, C\u00e9zanne), just to name a few, amongst his close friends.<\/p>\n Small traces of adhesive paper on the fly leaves, else a fine and well-preserved copy of important provenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Square 8vo (201 x 191 mm) 4 nn.ll., 105 pp., 2 nn.ll. Original illustrated and printed wrappers, later slipcase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":82020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[604,598,1450,1264],"class_list":{"0":"post-82031","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-19th-century-illustrations","8":"product_tag-19th-century-literature","9":"product_tag-first-edition","10":"product_tag-inscription","11":"pa_auteur-gide-andre-2","12":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Andr\u00e9 GIDE","chapeau":"Inscribed to the Belgian symbolist writer Georges Rodenbach","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Librairie de l'Art Ind\u00e9pendant, 1893","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n