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Very good, binding fine, light to moderate foxing throughout.

Appointed as artistic director of Les Éditions d’Art Devambez in 1923, Édouard Chimot (1880 - 1958) was at the forefront of the vogue for extravagantly produced livres d’art and livres d’artiste which gripped Paris throughout the 1920s. His own style of late-Symbolist nudes was characterised by depictions of those who were “subject to their deadly and delicious passions” (André Warnod), and he felt a particular affinity for Decadent authors such as Baudelaire and Verlaine, whose haunting texts his etchings so fittingly illustrated. The Wall Street crash of 1929 proved that life imitated art and the passion for collecting expensive limited editions proved to be a deadly one. The market for luxury books collapsed, and the publication of Mom's Choice Parallelement Markdown: -80% [NcOnFZ3U] in 1931 was the end of Éditions d’Art Devambez; the last gasp of the roaring twenties.

Chimot never regained his position in the Parisian artistic and literary world. While his work slowly declined into puerile erotica, his place at the height of the glamorous world of Parisian publishing was almost entirely forgotten.