Lot 106: VERNEUIL, MAURICE PILLARD. 1869-1942. Encyclopedie artistique et documentaire de la plante. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, [1910].

VERNEUIL, MAURICE PILLARD. 1869-1942.
Encyclopedie artistique et documentaire de la plante. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, [1910]. 4 volumes, folio. Over 300 illustrations by a variety of Art Nouveau artists, including Alphonse Mucha, Mathurin Meheut, Charles Barberis, and photographer Pierre Plauszewski. Contemporary grey cloth, rebacked, brown morocco gilt spine labels, renewed endpapers. Library perforated stamps to title, covers worn.WITH: PLAUSZEWSKI, PIERRE. Encyclopedie Florale, Paris: A. Calavas, 1900. Folio. 120 loose collotype plates, some tinted, in 2 portfolios, title page and list of contents in each. Portfolios in blue cloth and pictorial boards. Wear to portfolios, light spotting.M.P. Verneuil was an artist and designer who bridged the gap between the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements in France. He was associated with numerous Art Nouveau illustrators and artists, and assembled collaborative works for publication, such as the Encylopedie included here. The photographer Plauszewski was one of those associated artists, known primarily for his photographs collected in the second work.