Madeleine LEMAIRE

Edition illustrated with full-page color plates and in-text black drawings by Madeleine Lemaire.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands outlined with dotted lines and decorated with richly ornamented double gilt compartments, slight rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of pebbled paper, corners slightly bumped.
Handsome copy.

first edition, one of the 20 numbered copies on Whatman, the only ones containing the color illustrations, the most restricted large print.
Book illustrated with 19 great original compositions out of text as well as 18 original vignettes in bands and cul-de-lamp Madeleine Lemaire.
Our copy is quite complete, on the page of false title, of the original watercolor of Madeleine Lemaire that she signed.
The case and the shirt have snags, small spots and tears, a lace is missing.
Pleasant interior condition.