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Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy 68. Contemporary French three-quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Smooth spine elaborately decorated and titled in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Original tan and gold printed wrappers preserved. Collating [ii], 114, [3], [1, blank]. Title-page printed in tan, green and gold. Ten mounted color plates within decorative borders, descriptive tissue-guards. Chapter titles printed in gold. A very Fine copy. An exotic fairy tale, richly illustrated by Dulac. With decorations not found in the English language editions, including nine designs of a different small tree in an urn on pages preceding each chapter; decorated initials at start of each chapter; seven tailpieces; two surrounds for letterpress on limitation and colophon. Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
[Dulac, Edmund, illustrator]. La Princesse Badourah. L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, Paris, 1914.
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Description: Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy 347. A handsomely restrained binding, ca. 1914, by Georges Levitsky (stamp-signed) in three-quarter antelope brown morocco with gilt rules over marbled paper boards. Original wrappers preserved. Ten mounted color plates within decorative borders. Housed in the binder's morocco- edged custom slipcase. A superb and very Fine copy. With decorations not found in the English language editions, including nine designs of a different small tree in an urn on pages preceding each chapter; decorated initials at start of each chapter; seven tailpieces; two surrounds for for letterpress on limitation and colophon. The binder, Ukraine-born (1885) and trained, Georges Levitsky emigrated to Paris in 1907 and set up his own shop in 1910. His clients included King Albert I of Belgium and King Alexander I of Serbia, producing what would evolve into a "dynamic and resourceful" style (Duncan & Debartha). Hughey 31c.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 500 Signed Copies This Copy in a Beautiful Contemporary Binding by Franz Schauwers With Decorations Not Found in the English Language Edition DULAC, Edmund. La Princesse Badourah. Conte des Mille et une Nuits. Illustré par Edmond Dulac. Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, n.d. [1914]. First edition in French, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 347. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in; 294 x 221 mm). Ten mounted color plates within decorative borders. Bound ca. 1914 by Franz [Schauwers] (stamp-signed) in three-quarter purple crushed levant morocco with gilt rules over marbled paper boards. Smooth spine lettered and richly decorated in gilt with nine red morocco floral onlays. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Matching marbled endpapers. Original wrappers preserved. A very fine copy in a very attractive binding. With decorations not found in the English language editions, including nine designs of a different small tree in an urn on pages preceding each chapter; decorated initials at start of each chapter; seven tailpieces; two surrounds for for letterpress on limitation and colophon. Hughey 31c.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.