Georges FRAGEROLLE

First edition of these Christmas carols set to music by Georges Fragerolle.
Publisher's full white paper boards binding, smooth spine, front cover illustrated with a large decoration representing the Nativity, endpapers and pastedowns of floral-patterned paper.
Work decorated with Art Nouveau illustrations and ornamentations by George Auriol.
Gift inscription in pen on the page facing the half-title page.
Handsome copy complete with its very fragile illustrated dust jacket.

First edition of this poem by Georges Fragerolle set to music by himself and performed for the first time at the famous Montmartre cabaret "Le Chat noir" by Rodolphe Salis on January 21, 1896, where he was the regular pianist alongside Erik Satie.
Publisher's sand-colored paper boards, smooth spine, covers illustrated with a large design representing the Giza Pyramids site surmounted by the dream of a Pharaoh's soldiers, endpapers and pastedowns with floral-patterned paper.
Work illustrated with 17 full-page lithographs by Amédée Virola.
Some rubbing to edges and corners, copy lacking its very fragile illustrated dust jacket.
Handsome copy.