Live auction - Lot 129
[UK - Eragny Press]
Abrégé de l'art poétique françois. A Alphonse Delbene, abbé de Haute-Combe en Savoie.
(Hammersmith) London, Hacon & Ricketts (Eragny Press), (January) 1903
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
8vo.
Publisher's binding: half grey paper, patterned paper with blossom in buff and green on covers, gilt-stamped title on front cover, flat spine (spotting, flyleaves browned). Uncut copy.
Text in "Vale type" decorated with floral borders on title and facing page, headpieces & large tailpieces and initials by Lucien Pissarro wood-engraved by his wife Esther. Eragny's mark on title. Edition limited to 226 unnumbered copies on Arches hand-made paper, of which 200 for sale.
Ref. Ransom, Eragny Press, 14. - The gentle art of Lucien Pissarro, 25. - Moore, p. 22. - Tomkinson, Eragny Press, 15.
Prov. Douglas Geoffrey Bridson (1910-1980), radio producer, the "cultural boss of the BBC" and author (bookpl.).
*** Illustré d'un encadrement ornementé sur le titre et la p. opposée, de bandeaux, grands culs-de-lampe et d'initiales. Rel. d'édition.