Images d’une Femme / Vingt-Quatre Études De Nu

Folio (301 x 240 mm), pp.1-8, 9-16; 24 black-and-white photographic plates, unbound, introduction by Jules Romains. Original black cloth backed red paper-covered board portfolio, white label to front cover printed in black and red, black ribbon ties to fore edge; lightly rubbed. A fine set in a near-fine portfolio.

First edition. The French designer Maurice Pillard-Verneuil worked with Alphonse Mucha. He is a little known figure of the Art Nouveau but one of its most intelligent and committed contributors. Number 103 of 1100 copies.