Oeuvres

Illustrated edition by Robida, first printing with 49 plates (8 in color, 35 in camaieu and 6 in black), and numerous text illustrations (approximately 600).
Publisher's polychrome illustrated boards signed Souze and bound by Engel. Special gilt and blue plate on red ground. Spine similar. Rear board with a half-timbered house in a central roundel and blind angular cornerpieces.
Front board of first volume very good, that of the second with a 1cm diameter stain, and soiling to the upper part of the black border. Lower corners bumped, others rubbed. A tear to the spine of the first volume. Headcaps rubbed, those at head turned in. Soiling to rear boards. Scattered and unevenly distributed foxing. Some leaves sprung.
Despite flaws, a handsome copy overall of this rare binding.
Robida's masterpiece of illustration, with genuine imaginative profusion, baroque and delightfully exuberant.