Perrault, ClaudeBiblio.com
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Histoire de Peau d'Ane Conte de ma mère l'Oye
1902123847London: Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. London Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts 1902 first thus. Octavo 40 pages printed in red and black on Arches handmade paper with a wood-engraved vignette for the Mother Goose stories title vignette borders initials and printer's device plus 2 wood-engraved illustrations. Original quarter contrasting plain and patterned papered boards lettered in gilt; edges uncut and partially unopened; covers lightly sunned and rubbed with brown marks to the rear cover apparently from prolonged contact with another book; endpapers browned; a very good copy internally in fine condition. One of only 230 copies of which 200 were offered for sale printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro. The title vignette and two illustrations were drawn and engraved by T. Sturge Moore; the frontispiece borders and initials were designed by Lucien and engraved by him and Esther. This is the fourteenth book of the press. Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts hardcover
