Le caprice du bibliophile

Everything you always wanted to know about art in books and the bibliophile book of the Belle Epoque

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Vintage New Year’s card. If I was commissioned to draw a New Year’s card, this is exactly what I’d draw.

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Erwin Puchinger (1876-1944). Postcard Design. Gilded pen & ink ca. 1900

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Thank you very much for visiting my tumblr page. I’m glad you love some of the the pics I found or made. I look forward to discovering your latest posts and share them. I hope you continue to post these beautiful botanical prints, I like these very much too. Best wishes :) 

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Carlos Schwabe. Frontispiece made for "L'art et L'idée" (printed by Paul Avril), éd. by Octave Uzanne. Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1892. Japanese paper.

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Georges Ohnet. Un mariage américain. Paris: Société d'éditions littéraires et artistiques - Librairie Paul Ollendorff, [1909]. Book cover artist: de Parys

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Bookplate with the motto, 'Fert in omnia rutubam et tristitiam terribilis amor', made by Raphaël Kirchner for Georges Goury. 1905

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RAMA : poème dramatique en trois actes de Paul Vérola.(1863-1931). Illustration de Alphonse Musha.(1860-1939).

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Art Nouveau Color Palette

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Willy. Danseuses. Ed. Albert Méricant. Cover art by Charles Atamian (1872, Instanbul - 1947, Paris)

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“La Bijouterie Française au XIXe siècle (1800-1900)” par le joaillier Henri Vever, 1908.

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Le Réveil, 1893

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HOUSSAYE, Henry Aspasie Cléopatre Théodora. Paris: Les Amis des Livres, 1899 Illustrated by Adolphe Giraldon

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Revival in Belle Epoque postcards of themes inspired by Antiquity

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Vintage ad "La Mascota", Cigarro Mejicano published in "Almanaque Bouret", Mexico, 1897

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Documents de bijouterie et orfèvrerie modernes, par Paul Follot. Henri Laurens, Éditeur. 6, rue de Tournon, Paris.1900.

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Belle Epoque Menu Card issued by the Liebig Company

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An invitation card depicting "Le Chat Blanc" (white cat). It echoes Théophile Steinlen's 1896 poster advertising the "Chat Noir" tour. It's part of the estate of French writer Paul Jeanne. Paul Jeanne often spent time in Rodolphe Salis's "Le Chat Noir", a famous cabaret located in Montmartre, the bohemian distict of Paris.