SÉGUY, ÉMILE-ALAIN. 1877-1951. Insectes. Paris: Éditions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt, [1928].

SÉGUY, ÉMILE-ALAIN. 1877-1951.


Insectes. Paris: Éditions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt, [1928].

Folio. 20 pochoir colored lithographic plates, loose as issued. Publisher's pictorial quarter cloth portfolio. Light soiling and staining to portfolio, browning to title page, light browning around edges of plates.



Emile-Alain Séguy was a teacher at the Estienne school who influenced the development of the Art-Deco style. The plates include 16 illustrations of various insects in impressively oversized form, crowded together with 5 on each plate, along with 5 plates with samples of decorative patterns incorporating insect forms.

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