Collectif - L'autographe - 1871

Exciting illustrated edition of this literary review that aligns with the 19th-century taste for graphic curiosities, facsimiles of famous writings, and the highlighting of manuscripts as aesthetic and historical objects.

It gathers autograph reproductions of political, literary, artistic, and scientific personalities, accompanied by explanatory notices that place each figure within their cultural or event context.

The work reflects an enthusiasm for the materiality of writing and the almost fetishized value of the signature, in a time marked by the memory of the upheavals of 1848 and the war of 1870.

This collective project illustrates the meeting of erudition, bibliophilic curiosity, and image culture, and contributes to the formation of a graphic heritage where the autograph is seen as an intimate trace and a historic monument.

Collective - The Autograph - 1871 -
VIII + 232 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, landscape format work in its full Bordeaux edition cardboard cover, with signs of use, lower edge with a tear, worn edges and corners, smooth decorated spine, gilded titling and date.

Good interior condition, foxing, work enriched with numerous portraits, illustrations, autographs, and signatures, texts in multiple columns.

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