C'EST D'AUCASSIN ET NICOLETE [SIC].

Description: 8vo (quires partly unopened). - Last book to use the "Vale type". Illustrated with a five colour block frontispiece "Nicole" wood-engraved by and after Lucien Pissarro. Text decorated with small ornaments and on p. 3 with a large red initial and red friezes. Music scores in black. Eragny's mark on last leaf. "Aucassin et Nicolette" is an anonymous unique example of "chantefable", a combination of prose and verse, written in the 12th or 13th century, and imitating contemporary works. Edition limited to 241 unnumbered copies (incl. 6 on vellum), of which 200 paper and 3 vellum copies were for sale, one of the 200 on Arches hand-made paper. - Ref. Ransom, Eragny Press, 15. - The gentle art of Lucien Pissarro, 26. - Moore, p. 22. - Tomkinson, Eragny Press, 16. - *** Dernier ouvrage utilisant les caractères "Vale" illustré d'un frontispice en couleurs et à la p. 3, d'une grande initiale et de frises en rouge. Rel. d'édition.

Condition: Publisher's binding: half beige paper, patterned paper with verbena in blue and green on covers, gilt-stamped title on front cover, flat spine (traces of use, flyleaves sl. and partly browned). In a box. Circa: May 1903)