Ma Petite Ville, Jean Lorrain 1898 depresse/ 300, Handcolored by pochoir master Jean Saude and illustrated by Frederik Masse, Manuel Orazi and Leon Rudincki.  Has 6 full page illustrations and 4 vignettes.  LORRAIN, JEAN (1855-1906). Ma petite ville. Le miracle de Bretagne. Un veuvage d'amour. Paris: Société Française d'Éditions d'Art L.-Henry May, 1898. 4to (276 x 177 mm). 6 full-page color plates etched by Frédéric Massé after original watercolors by Manuel Orazi in both colored and uncolored states. The intricate, textless floral woodcut vignettes and decorative borders by Léon Rudnicki are also printed en noir on otherwise blank sheets. As issued in cream colored wrappers printed in gold with designs by Léon Rudnicki. Slight fraying to spine ends. An unnumbered EXEMPLAIRE DE PRESSE (press/review copy), designated as such via a contemporary handwritten notation on the justification page. This volume was arguably a master copy or an elite presentation piece meant to display the publisher's absolute pinnacle of artistic capabilities. Jean Lorrain's Ma petite ville stands as a definitive visual landmark of the French Symbolist and Decadent movements. Celebrated for his sharp-tongued literary criticism and flamboyant Parisian lifestyle, Lorrain's text is paired here with spectacular, vibrant illustrations by the Italian Art Nouveau master Manuel Orazi. The text block is structurally harmonized by the complex floral borders of Léon Rudnicki, creating a cohesive, cross-disciplinary aesthetic experience. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Unless indicated by the ¤ symbol next to the lot number (or bearing an explicit statement such as 'No Reserve' or 'Without Reserve'), which denotes no reserve, all lots in the catalog are subject to a reserve. The reserve is the minimum hammer price that the seller is willing to accept for a lot. This amount is confidential and does not exceed the low estimate value. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing