Renoir et ses amis.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Paris: H. Floury, 1921. Small quarto, in an attractive contemporary French binding of quarter red morocco with marbled boards (corner points slightly bumped/rubbed). Raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. (4, 274, 2pp.). With the original front wrapper (a lithograph in sanguine, 'T?¦te de jeune fille') bound-in; 56 gravure plates (12 in colour); 1 original dry-point etching by Renoir, 'Jeunes filles fleurissant leurs chapeaux', on fine wove paper (loosely inserted); and 95 in-text gravure illustrations. First edition on paper vellum. Slight age-toning, otherwise fine. An important memoir of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), key figure of the Impressionist movement, by close friend and writer Georges Rivi??re (1855-1943).