CERCLE ARTISTIQUE '' Wij Willen '' Ville de Gand ( editor ) - Léon RINSKOPF ( provenance ) :
Reference : 45387
Gand ( Gent ) , Cercle Artistique ''Wij Willen '', 1887, in-8°, (40)nn pp (including 17 pp of manuscript poetry and music scores reproduced in lithography) + (42) nn pp (including 12 two toned lithographs printed on one side only. Bound in red cloth with gilt title on front cover . Copy from the library of Léon Rinskopf (Gent 1862 - Deauville 1915). On the front cover in gilt lettering '' Cercle WIJ WILLEN - Témoignage de gratitude à Monsieur L. Rinskopf 23 Octobre 1887''. The facsimile poems are by Georges Rodenbach , Grégoire Leroy..., the facsimile music by Paul Lebrun . The two toned lithographs represent paintings or drawings by e.g. Omer Coppens, Hippolyte Le Roy , Louis Mast , Albert Toefaert , Florimond van Acker , Henri Van Melle. Among the exhibitors were also Louis Artan, Albert Bartsoen (one of the organisers), but no works of them is reproduced. Rare and interesting illustrated catalogue. Text in French. Catalogue en français.