Alfons Maria Mucha (1860-1939)

Various authors

A PAIR OF ART NOUVEAU PUBLICATIONS

1900, 1905
Maurice-Pillard Verneuil, Georges Auriol, Alfons Mucha: Combinaisons Ornementales se Multipliant à l`Infini à l`Aide du Miroir. Size 21.6 x 24.7 cm. 60 loose leaves (title page, introduction, and 58 pp. of pattern plates) in cardboard covers with two-colour printing and a cloth spine. The title page is printed in three colours, as are the introduction and all pages of the pattern book (colour stencil printing). Introductory text by M.-P. Verneuil. Each leaf is marked in print with the monogram of the respective author. Published by the Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts in Paris ca. 1900/1901. Leaf no. 35 has margins trimmed beyond the printed area; the other leaves show only slightly creased corners and minor tears at the edges, are faintly browned, with occasional light pencil marks in places and minimal spotting; covers rubbed and lined on the inside. James Clarence Harvey (1859-1917): In Bohemia. Format 12°, 15.4 x 11.7 cm. 207 numbered pages, in English. Illustrations by Alfons Mucha, Hy Mayer, Richard Felton Outcault, and others. The title page (and frontispiece) by A. Mucha is printed in black and green. Published by H. M. Caldwell Co., New York - Boston, 1905. Firm full-cloth binding with printed decoration and a two-colour paper title label. Binding damaged, text block in good condition.