SÉGUY, Émile-Allain. 
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Insectes. Vingt Planches en Phototypie Coloriées au Patron Donnant Quatre-Vingts Insects et Seize Compositions Décoratives Paris: Éditions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt,[1926].
FIRST EDITION. Folio (45 x 33 cm). Contemporary brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, compartments stamped with scarab device, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 20 magnificent pochoir illustrations. Light shelf-wear to binding, thirteen of the plates sometime excised from the binding by a previous owner, but now neatly re-inserted. All fresh and clean. A suite of twenty plates, each with a dazzling composition of five different insects, as indicated on table of plates. “The depictions of insects in the illustrations are remarkably detailed, revealing Séguy's unique interest in their scientific study as a source of inspiration fro artistic creation.” (Metropolitan). Each plate features five naturalistic illustrations of different species. The plates were likely meant to inspire designs for textiles and wallpapers. The French illustrator Émile-Allain Séguy, known as E.A. Séguy, was one of the most important exponents of the Art Deco and Art Nouveau movements of the 1920s. His work inspired a generation of artists throughout Europe. Séguy produced eleven albums of nature themed illustrations and patterns, drawing inspiration from papillons (butterflies) and other insects, flowers, foliage, crystals and animals. Séguy was one of few artists that successfully combined both Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles in his work. Séguy's popular papillon and insect books had many people confuse him with the entomologist Eugène Séguy, who held a chair of entomology at the “Museum national d'histoire naturelle” from 1956 to 1960.
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