Item #123847 Histoire de Peau d'Ane (Conte de ma mère l'Oye). Eragny Press, Charles PERRAULT.
Histoire de Peau d'Ane (Conte de ma mère l'Oye)
Histoire de Peau d'Ane (Conte de ma mère l'Oye)
Histoire de Peau d'Ane (Conte de ma mère l'Oye)
Histoire de Peau d'Ane (Conte de ma mère l'Oye)

Histoire de Peau d'Ane (Conte de ma mère l'Oye)

London, Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1902 [first thus].

Octavo, 40 pages printed in red and black on Arches handmade paper, with a wood-engraved vignette (for the Mother Goose stories), title vignette, borders, initials and printer's device plus 2 wood-engraved illustrations.

Original quarter contrasting plain and patterned papered boards, lettered in gilt; edges uncut and partially unopened; covers lightly sunned and rubbed, with brown marks to the rear cover (apparently from prolonged contact with another book); endpapers browned; a very good copy (internally in fine condition).

One of only 230 copies (of which 200 were offered for sale), printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro. The title vignette and two illustrations were drawn and engraved by T. Sturge Moore; the frontispiece, borders and initials were designed by Lucien and engraved by him and Esther. This is the fourteenth book of the press.

Item #123847

Price (AUD): $2,200.00

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