Complete set of five plates illustrating Maurice Maeterlinck’s book En Égypte, Notes de voyage (In Egypt: Travel Notes), published by Éditions de la Chronique des lettres françaises, 1928
Original drypoint engravings
170 × 113 mm, margins approximately 355 × 220 mm
Fine artist’s proofs on antique laid paper, signed and numbered 8/10, from a total print run of 650 copies according to Mme Simon-Cournault, scattered foxing, soiling in the margins, tears in the right margins resulting from a former binding, slight yellowing along the edges
– Frontispiece: Ancient Egypt and Modern Egypt. (Simon-Cournault 289), dated, dedicated à monsieur Thirion // hommage E. Cournault and annotated Epreuves d’artiste // 1 série sur papier ancien // des 5 pointes sèches illustrant // En Egypte de M. Maeterlinck, pencil sketch of an Egyptian profile, crease in the lower margin and in the upper left corner
– The King’s Valley (S.-M. 290)
– Scene from Egyptian life. (S.-M. 291)
– Funeral scenes. (S.-M. 292), soiling at the bottom of the image
– Karnak. (S.-M. 193), crease in the right margin, slight ink stain in the left margin