[BEAUMONT (Édouard de)] - PERRAULT (Charles), Cendrillon et Les fées, Paris: Boussod Valadon et Cie, 1886. -In-folio, old pink morocco, boards decorated with small silver butterflies, ribbed spine, framed in old pink morocco inside, decorated with gilded fillets and motifs, gray moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges (Ch. Meunier). Meunier). This superb deluxe publication reproduces perfectly in color facsimile the 33 watercolors that Édouard de Beaumont created for these two famous Perrault tales. Only 200 copies of this edition are said to have been printed on strong wove paper. This volume is often accompanied by the edition of "La Barbe bleue et La Belle au bois dormant", also illustrated by de Beaumont, which is missing here. A fine copy bound by Charles Meunier. Spine faded, rubbing to nerves and spines.
Estimate
€200 - €300
Result
€253
Buyer's premium
30%
[BEAUMONT (Édouard de)] - PERRAULT (Charles), Cendrillon et Les fées, Paris: Boussod Valadon et Cie, 1886. -In-folio, old pink morocco, boards decorated with small silver butterflies, ribbed spine, framed in old pink morocco inside, decorated with gilded fillets and motifs, gray moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges (Ch. Meunier). Meunier). This superb deluxe publication reproduces perfectly in color facsimile the 33 watercolors that Édouard de Beaumont created for these two famous Perrault tales. Only 200 copies of this edition are said to have been printed on strong wove paper. This volume is often accompanied by the edition of "La Barbe bleue et La Belle au bois dormant", also illustrated by de Beaumont, which is missing here. A fine copy bound by Charles Meunier. Spine faded, rubbing to nerves and spines.
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