Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

La Fontaine, Jean de. Ripart, Georges. Fables Complètes Suivies de Philémon et Baucis. 2 vols.

With 12 orig. coloured etchings on plates, each plate repeated in black and white, and with 13 woodcut vignettes and 13 end-pieces after drawings, all by Georges Ripart. 234, (6) pp. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers with front vignette, in transparent dust-jacket. – Paris, Maurice Glomeau, 1923.

First edition of these illustrations by Georges Ripart (b. 1871). One of 41 numbered copies on papier pur Chiffon des Papeteries du Marais with the double suite of the plates and with an original drawing by the artist, loose as issued. Monogrammed by the publisher Maurice Glomeau. Together with a typed presentation letter (carbon copy) with publisher’s printed letter-head, signed and annotated by the publisher himself. – Not in Bodemann, Fabula docet, or Monod. – Good copy of this rare edition. – Best.-Nr. 6810