Legrand, Poëmes à l'eau-forte, Paris, 1914, copy number 4, crushed morocco with onlays by Joly fils

LEGRAND, LOUIS

Poëmes a l'eau-forte. Paris: Gustave Pellet, 1914

4to (238 x 184mm.), copy no. 4 of a limited edition of 80 copies, aquatints and illustrations by Legrand, crushed brown morocco gilt with coloured onlays by Joly fils, with holly, thistle and skull motifs, spine similarly decorated, top edge gilt, other uncut, decorated fabric endleaves, slipcase, original printed wrappers bound in

The illustrations by Legrand were designed for texts by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Gautier, Verlaine and others.

PROVENANCE:

Enrique Gutierrez-Roig, armorial bookplate