Les ballades.

8vo: 88-[4] pp. (some offset on the flyleaves, some spotting on first and last leaves).

Quarter buff paper, gold stamped on upper left cover, white paper boards with repeat pattern of small five-petalled flowers printed in pink, spine gold stamped, dito handmade cardboard portfolio covered with handmade paper. Uncut copy.

Limited edition to 226 copies on Arnold's unbleached handmade paper with Vale watermark printed in Vale (unnumb. copy). With a pressmark, wood-engr. ill. in b/w, border printed in black and red, one large initial in red, and 38 initials in red designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by Lucien and Esther Pissarro.
Ref. Genz, M.D. - A history of the Eragny Press 1894-1914, pp. 161-164. - Ransom (Eragny Press) 6. - Tomkinson (Eragny Press) 7.
Prov. Marcel Schwob (1867-1905), French symbolist writer (bookpl.).