Henri CASSIERS, Cyriel BUYSSE
Contes des Pays-Bas
L'Edition d'art H. Piazza|Paris 1910|16.50 x 23.50 cm|relié sous chemise et étui
Edition ornamented with 50 original illustrations colored by pochoir by Henri Cassiers, one of 250 numbered copies on handmade vellum, the only issue after 50 Japan variously enriched.
Full midnight blue morocco binding, spine with four raised bands, date gilt at tail, gilt roulettes on headcaps, framing of quadruple gilt fillets on brown morocco doublures enhanced with green almond mosaiqued morocco pieces forming rectangles and, at corners, blue, green almond and red mosaiqued morocco pieces embodying stylized floral motifs, painted silk endpapers representing a scene of Flemish life for the first: fishermen's wives waiting on the shore for the return of a fishing boat framed
Full midnight blue morocco binding, spine with four raised bands, date gilt at tail, gilt roulettes on headcaps, framing of quadruple gilt fillets on brown morocco doublures enhanced with green almond mosaiqued morocco pieces forming rectangles and, at corners, blue, green almond and red mosaiqued morocco pieces embodying stylized floral motifs, painted silk endpapers representing a scene of Flemish life for the first: fishermen's wives waiting on the shore for the return of a fishing boat framed
€1,500