Apollinaire, Guillaume--Raoul Dufy.

large 4to (332 x 250mm.), copy number 100 of 122, one of 91 copies on papier de Hollande, signed by the author and artist, 30 woodcut plates and 4 ornaments by Dufy, inscribed by Dufy to the French explorer and anthropologist Robert Hottot, original limp vellum wrapper, some offsetting as usual, wrapper slightly creased,



together with a printed folder with 9 loose leaves of proofs

Robert Hottot (1884-1939), bookplate

The Artist and the Book/Garvey 91; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 392; Rauch 43

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First edition of one of the most important French illustrated books of the twentieth century.

The Bestiaire was at once Apollinaire's first published collection of poems and Dufy's first, and arguably most important, illustrated book. Although the two did not collaborate again, Dufy illustrated the posthumous Le poète assassiné, published in 1926 to commemorate the eighth anniversary of Apollinaire's death.