BOOK
Les petits vieux / Emile Verhaeren.
- Date
- 1901
- By
- Verhaeren, Emile, 1855-1916, Pissarro, Lucien, 1863-1944, Pissarro, Esther, Shapero, Bernard, Vale Press, Eragny Press
- Notes
Poems.
Publication date from colophon.
"Le frontispiece en couleur et les lettre ornées ont été dessinés par Lucien Pissarro et gravés sur bois par Lucien et Esther Pissarro"--Colophon.
"Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage 230 exemplaires dont 200 pour la vente"--T.p. verso.
Printer's device for Eragny Press printed on p. [3], last set.
Printed in Vale type on old Japanese paper, uncut and printed on one side only. Cf. Prospectus.
Text printed in orange and black with decorated initial letters and printer's ornaments in orange; decorated initial on p. 4 printed in green and orange, printer's ornaments in leaf pattern on t.p.
Printed on double leaves.
Binding: 1/4 grey paper, with Michallet blue paper boards with repeat floral pattern of 'winter aconite' printed in two shades of green, spine lettered in gilt, top text edges gilt.
Genz, M. History Eragny Press, EP11
wood engraving Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand, 2006
Provenance: purchased by the Alexander Turnbull Library from Bernard Shapero Rare Books, 2005. Prospectus attached to plastic protective cover. Acc. 343185.
Digital image available: wood engraving. Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Details on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.
- Source URL
- wood engraving https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE422331
- Related to
- Digital Collection = Kohinga Matihiko 81268192800002836 Alma Collection
- Publisher
- London : Hacon & Ricketts [i.e. Vale Press] ... , MCMI [1901]
- Format
- [2], 16, [4] p. (pages [1-2], 1st set, and final p. blank) : 1 col. ill. (wood engraving) ; 13 x 17 cm.
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