Weckesser

First edition illustrated with 16 line engravings (eight of them full-page plates) by Jean-Emile Laboureur, one of 420 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, the only printing after 22 copies on Japon paper with various additional material.

Contemporary mouse-grey half morocco binding, smooth spine slightly faded and decorated with four inlaid brown morocco lozenges, date and place gilt at foot, gilt fillet frame to the moiré-effect paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, elegant Art Deco binding signed by Weckesser.

A handsome copy, attractively bound in an Art Deco binding by Weckesser, the illustrious family of bookbinders...