PERRAULT (Charles). - Lot 60

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PERRAULT (Charles). - Lot 60
PERRAULT (Charles). Sleeping Beauty. Little Red Riding Hood. Two tales of my loyal mother. London: Eragny press, 1899. - In-12, 194 x 125: 38 pp., (1 f.). Publisher's cardboard, blue half-box case at Leonard Gustafssons' bradel . Beautiful edition dedicated to Émile Verhaeren, printed in 224 copies on laid paper. It is illustrated with a title vignette, a gilt frontispiece on a double page, in a beautiful floral frame, a full-page figure, the publisher's mark, and 37 lettering, drawn by the impressionist painter Lucien Pissarro and woodcut by the artist and his wife Esther. The Eragny Press was an English art publishing house founded by Lucien and Esther Pissarro who published only 32 books between 1894 and 1914. This title is the second to come out of their presses. Very well preserved copy, in spite of a small wear without gravity to a bit.
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