[Rarebooks] FS: Honore Guilbeau's Complete Set of 69 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS with 34 drawings not used for THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT

[Charles Agvent]

We have recently posted on our home page and elsewhere 175 new Limited 
Editions Club acquisitions including Original Art for some of the books; 
publisher's, office, and proof copies of the books; and books still in 
their original shipping containers.  Here is an example.

MEREDITH, George (Honore GUILBEAU). THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT: AN ARABIAN 
ENTERTAINMENT: A complete set of the 69 ORIGINAL LINE DRAWINGS for the 
book with 34 additional drawings not used. [New York]: [Limited Editions 
Club], [1955]. The complete publisher's archive of 103 ORIGINAL 
pen-and-brush drawings by Honore Guilbeau used for the book including 34 
not used but present here. Most are on 9-3/4" x 11-1/2" paper with a few 
on smaller sheets. All are numbered in pencil with dimensions in the 
lower right corner and occasionally with annotations. Housed in a paper 
folder with "The George Macy Companies, Inc." printed on it along with 
"Proofs : Manuscript : Drawings." Also included are proofs of all of the 
engravings. About Fine, housed in the large original envelope from the 
Club. Genuinely unique.

An American painter, printmaker and illustrator, Honore Guilbeau first 
began to exhibit her art in Cleveland and elsewhere around 1930. During 
the 1930's Depression era she worked mainly in the medium of 
lithography, contributing at least three such works of art to the Ohio 
Chapter of the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). During the 1940's 
and 1950's, Honore Guilbeau illustrated a number of fine books, 
including works for the Limited Editions Club: Twain's A CONNECTICUT 
YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA, and THE 
SHAVING OF SHAGPAT. (#016592) $7,500.00

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