Le printemps sur la neige, et d’autres contes du bon vieux temps

Illustrations de A. Rackham. Paris : l’Editions d’Art, 1922. Quarto, finely bound in half crushed levant morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, the spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered in gilt with ornamentation and contrasting morocco leather inlays, small chips to head and food of spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, small ex libris label, the wrappers bound in, pp. 103, (5), the text within ruled borders, 16 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham with captioned tissue guards, 6 black and white plates, text illustrations, ribbon marker, a very good copy. Limited to 1300 numbered copies, text in French.

A magnificently bound edition of children’s stories by Guyot written as sequels to the works of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson and others, illustrated by English artist Arthur Rackham.