TERRASSE Claude Petites scènes familières.

Garvey, 25 ; Monod, 10600 ; François Chapon, Le peintre et le livre, p. 65.  

First edition.  

One of two musical teaching manuals by Bonnard published jointly with his brother-in-law the musician Claude Terrasse. 

It is illustrated with 20 magnificent lithographs (one the cover, and 19 in the text).  

“Bonnard’s first illustrations; songs by Franc-Nohain set to music by Claude Terrasse, Bonnard’s brother-in-law, for whom the artist also illustrated the Petit solfège (1893, photomechanical reproductions) and with whom he later collaborated in the Théâtre des Pantins” (Garvey).  

Bonnard “had learned to marry his line to rigid systems, musical notations or typographical orders. This modulation, so particular to his line, which creates an atmosphere around the slightest sketch; these deformations where the Japanese Nabi still reveals itself; and above all this aptitude for the decorative arrangement of a surface, had been exercised around the songs of Claude Terrasse (Petites Scènes Familières, Fromont, 1893)” (note translated after Chapon).  

Very nice and well preserved copy of this rare edition.