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LAFORGUE, Jules

€ 300 / 400

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(Epping [- Londres]), [Eragny Press], ("en vente chez Messrs. Hacon et Ricketts, London; Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 14 janvier [- 24 décembre]" 1897-1898)

2 vol., 8vo.

Publisher's binding: half grey paper, patterned paper with a design of wood sorrel in buff and green on covers, gilt-stamped title on front cover and flat spine (spines sl. browned, flyleaves browned). In a folder with black morocco label with title in gilt and same leather-edged slipcase. Uncut copies.

Illustrated by Lucien Pissarro with 2 nice frontispieces (depicting Salomé and Ophelia) framed with a floral border, same border on opposing page, large initials and small ornaments in text. Eragny's mark in medallion with caption "Fructus inter folia" on last page. Printed in "Vale" type in red & black. Edition limited to 220 unnumbereed copies on Arches hand-made paper, of which 200 for sale.
Ref. Ransom, Eragny Press, 3. - The gentle art of Lucien Pissarro, 13-14. - Tomkinson, Eragny Press, 3-4.
Prov. John Alexander Fuller Maitland (1856-1936), British music critic and scholar who encouraged the rediscovery of English music of the 16th and 17th c. (armorial bookpl.).