Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Contes cruels.

With 20 orig. etchings by Paul Maurice Vigoureux. 335, (3) pp. Large 8vo. Full brown morocco with blind tooled ornament on both boards and gilt stamped spine title (René Kieffer). Orig. printed wrappers bound-in. – Paris, René Kieffer, (1925).

One of 450 numbered copies on vélin de Cuve, of a total limited edition of 500. Publisher’s handycraft binding of which we have seen variants. One of the important book illustrations by P. M Vigoureux (b. 1876), pupil of G. Moreau. – Bénézit VIII, 567. – First flyleaf cut away. Else clean and fine. – Best.-Nr. 18580