Graziella - Translated by Ralph Wright; with 30 illustrations by Jacquier – Buch antiquarisch kaufen

leichte Gebrauchsspuren

Octavo

190

375 g

London

1600

Leinen

Englisch

London, Nonesuch Press, 1929, narrow 8vo, pp. (3) 190; original decorated cloth. - English, very handsome edition of this semi-autobiographical novel by Alphonse de Lamartine, France's first romantic poet, which had first been published, separately in book-form in 1852.
A book designed by Francis Meynell; 1600 numbered copies were printed (of which 600 for the usa), all on Arches paper. Eleven of the 30 illustrations were coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press, who also provided the patterned binding cloth. Ivy Jacquier (or Mrs. Ivy Skinner, 1890 - ?) was a French born painter and book illustrator. She also illustrated the Nonesuch edition of james Thomson's "The Seasons" (1927).
Tape residue marks in the corners of the end-papers (see 2nd picture), but otherwise an excellent copy. Dreyfus 57.

1929

17.08.2023

BN0631