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[email protected] VAT: GB 854 5998 64 2 3 I. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, 1873-1925 [1] MONNIER, Antoine. Eaux-fortes et Rêves creux. Sonnets excentriques et poëmes étranges. Paris: Léon Willem, 1873. £300 8vo (240 × 160 mm), pp. [4], 84, [4] and 20 etched plates. Original wrappers. Rather loose and wrapper slightly creased and soiled. MARTIN STONE (1946-2016) FIRST EDITION, one of 72 copies on papier hollande (of a total edition of 350). ‘Etchings and hollow Dreams’: written and Since Martin left us late last year so much has been illustrated in idiosyncratic style by Monnier in the spirit of written about him as a guitarist, bookseller, book scout and Poe and Baudelaire. legend of the rare book trade. His obituaries in The Times, The Telegraph and The Book Collector are easily accessible. In life, he was the subject of various articles articles and [2] Photo: Ina Weber memoirs, notably in Rebecca Rego Barry’s Rare Books Uncovered (2015) and a photo-memoir edited by the late BLÉMOND, Émile. Frédéric RÉGAMEY, Peter Howard (2000). One of Martin’s many passions illustrator. Les Filles sainte Marie. Ronde. was the art of the French illustrated book, the subject Paris: [Lemercier for] A. Quantin, 1879. £75 ofthis catalogue. Small folio (310 × 220 mm), limitation leaf and 8 lithographed A note on pricing: Martin’s books were never widely plates (including title and a musical excerpt).