[Literaure & Art] Bonnard, Pierre. (1867–1947); Terrasse, Claude. (1867–1923). Petites Scenes Familieres. Pour Piano. Illustrations de Pierre Bonnard. - INSCRIBED TO JEAN ALBRECHT. Paris: E. Fromont. [1893]. First edition. Two piano solo suites by Claude Terrasse, Bonnard’s brother-in-law (the husband of Bonnard’s sister Andree). The suites published here are the 15 short piano pieces of the Petites scenes familieres, and the 4 pieces of La fete au village. 19 partial-page lithographs by Bonnard. [title leaf], [Contents leaf], [i], [2]-36, [1]-[2], 37-61, ad [1] pp. First leaf of musical score (page [2]) has blank recto and no page number. Upper margin of title page signed and inscribed "A mon vieux camarade et excellent ami Albrecht / cordial Souvenir/ Claude Terrasse."


Thin 4to. Modern burgundy quarter leather and cloth. Covers near fine, margins of title and last leaf restored by binder (overlying preexisting marginal tape repairs to last page and verso of title). Minor edgewear to title, pp. 49-50, and last leaf. Minor staining to title and margins of Contents leaf. Foxing (mostly to title, contents leaf, and last 2 leaves of score). Contents otherwise very good.


The composer Jean Albrecht was a classmate of Terrasse at the Ecole de musique classique et religieuse in the early 1880s.


One of Bonnard’s earliest and most charming publications, a primer in musical notation for children, by his brother-in-law Claude Terrasse. “I have to think of the decorators of ancient missals, or of the art that the Japanese put into the decoration of encyclopedic dictionaries to give myself some courage,” he wrote to Vuillard in 1891, during the creation of the book. In all, 2,000 copies were printed, in two issues of 1,000 copies; this example from the second. Covers slightly rubbed, overall a nice copy. Terrasse 6; Basel 27; Chapon p. 65; Söderberg p. 138; Turn of a Century 56; Carteret IV.77 6 .