Jules Laforgue / Daragnès - Moralités légendaires

EDITIONS DE LA BANDEROLE, Paris, 1922. Vignettes designed and engraved by Jean-Gabriel DARAGNES. Paris, octavo, 1 leaf, half-title, title, dedication to Teodor de Wyzewa, 202 pp. untrimmed, table, colophon, 1 leaf. Limited edition of 700 copies. One of 60 numbered copies on Hollande paper. The morals are contained in the universal captions, the book includes "Hamlet or the Consequences of Filial Piety", "The Miracle of the Roses", "Lohengrin, Son of Parsifal", "Salomé", "Pan et Syrinx or the Invention of the Seven-Pipe Flute", "Perseus and Andromeda or the Happiest of the Three". 150 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, fine initial letters. "Edition sought after and valued", Carteret, IV, 229 Monod, 6755. Very slight wear to the spine and pale stains on the cover."

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