Emily Brontë / Léon Masson - Wuthering Heights - 1947

Scarce first edition thus, limited to 299 numbered copies. Four volumes. This copy is one of 30 copies in Rives blanc or teinté. Containing a suite of 147 lithographed illustrations. With the suite of 23 portraits as a separate volume, and with two original illustrations by Masson (in India Ink and enhanced with wash) are bound into Volume One. Also present are the 12 refused plates. Beautifully presented in a Martin-Brés signed binding. Each volume has a uniform dark brown full leather, with gilt and embossed design to the boards and gilt titles to the spines. There is a touch of rubbing to the ribs and to the edges of the spines. Other than this, in excellent condition inside and out. We cannot find another copy of this work in the four volumes, with the original illustrations. Text in French. 33 x 26 cm, 244, 256, C200 (unnumbered illustrations), C100 (unnumbered illustrations). pages Wuthering Heights (1847) was Emily Brontë’s only novel In 1947, its centenary year, a Paris publisher produced it as a monumental illustrated edition. 147 original lithographs by Léon Masson, plus a separate suite of 23 portraits of the characters. This is one of only 30 copies on Rives (white or tinted), the deluxe issue. These copies came with extras for collectors: the 23 portraits as a separate suite; the refused plates (planches refusées), 12 lithographs that the artist or publisher rejected from the final book and, in this copy, two original drawings by Masson in India ink and wash, bound into the first volume. They are unique objects, done by the artist’s hand.

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