Étude de la Mer:

Faune et flore de la Manche et de l'Océan [Vol. 1]

by Mathurin Méheut

text by Maurice Pillard Verneuil

Nouvelle Édition, in French.  Paris:  Éditions Albert Lévy, 1924  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Gray-green covers have titles and illustration in white ink. 
• Boards show some exposure, staining, dings, heavy edgewear.  Corners are scuffed and frayed, with exposed board.  See photos. 
• Spine has white text and is torn and semi-detached, with foot portion absent.  See photos.  
• Binding is fragile, boards are partially detached.  
• Dark gray-green end papers/ pastedowns have some staining, closed tears; feps show marginal toning, some pencil marks. 
• Illustrations are bright and clear, plates are age toned at margins.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits marginal toning. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have red ink at head. 
• PS2025.0130

213 pages. 10.75 x 13.75 inches

Volume 1 (Tome premier) of a two volume set dedicated to marine life of the ocean and English Channel by the French painter, ceramist, engraver, and etcher Mathurin Méheut (1882-1958).  Thick boards with gray-green cloth and titles in white ink; the spine is partially peeled away, as in other examples.  Overall Very Good Minus condition due to boards and binding.  Interior is tanned, more at the margins, with the 22 color plates vivid and bright.  Many black and white illustrations are integrated into the text throughout.  A very good copy of a rare book often found in deplorable condition. 

Étude de la Mare is an extraordinary work.  From 1910 to 1912, Méheut collaborated with naturalists at the Roscoff marine biology station to depict marine life, and the drawings and studies he produced untimately became this book.  As the Preface by M. Yves Delage enthuses, Méheut produced a book on the sea that is not the dry output of a naturalist ignorant of artistic concerns, nor an artistic fantasy unmoored from biology!  It is both artistically beautiful and scientifically correct.

Nouvelle Édition, produced in Paris and sold at the Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. 

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