REF. 0829
L'Oiseau Bleu. Féerie de Maurice Maeterlinck avec des aquarelles de Georges Lepape.
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L'Oiseau Bleu. Féerie de Maurice Maeterlinck avec des aquarelles de Georges Lepape.
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MAETERLINCK, Maurice. L'Oiseau Bleu. Féerie de Maurice Maeterlinck avec des aquarelles de Georges Lepape.
Paris: Le Livre, 1925.
Quarto (240 x 174 mm). (5) ff., 212 pp., (1) f. Original wrappers and spine preserved.
Full morocco with a mosaic depicting a bird's blue wings on the covers, smooth spine, author and title in gilt, top edge gilt over witnesses, turn-ins inlaid with pieces of garnet morocco, gilt and blind fillets, burnt-sienna watered-silk doublure, slipcase (L'Atelier Moderne).
First edition, a large-paper copy.
One of 400 copies on Arches vellum paper, illustrated with 14 watercolours by Lepape, stencil-coloured by Saudé — comprising the cover, the frontispiece and 12 plates.
Spine very slightly lightened, otherwise a superb copy.
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REF. 0829 — Maurice Maeterlinck — L'Oiseau Bleu. Féerie de Maurice Maeterlinck avec des aquarelles de Georges Lepape.