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TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de (1864-1901). Au Cirque. Vingt-De...

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TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de (1864-1901). Au Cirque. Vingt-Deux Dessins aux Crayons de Couleur. Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1905. Folio. Illustrated with 22 loose color plates after Toulouse-Lautrec. [viii] pp. Loose, as issued, with the text pages in folded loose signature and each plate mounted on blue or red board in its own folding, numbered folder, all housed in publisher's folding portfolio, gray cloth over boards, front board stamped in red (portfolio toned, edgeworn, soiled, inner portion of folds worn, chipped, some toning and foxing to text leaves and numbered folders, plates generally bright). With the ink ownership stamp of the Circus Museum in Belgium on the inner front cover of the portfolio. Near fine.FIRST EDITION THUS, ONE OF 200 COPIES ON CHIFFRES ARABES, (this copy unnumbered). Toulouse-Lautrec famously enjoyed urban pleasures, one of which was the circus. He did numerous paintings and drawings about circus performers in the 1880s and 1890s, some of which served as the basis of this collection. Rare. Toole-Stott 3691. Measurements: 18"L x 16"W x 2"H.