MODERN ILLUSTRATED COLLECTIONS: FERROUD PUBLISHERS.

-GEBHART. Les Trois rois. Paris, Ferroud, 1919. Large 8vo, 54 pp. Modern light brown half-maroquin, ribbed spine, author’s name and title in gold, cold-stamped fillet bordering the ribs and covers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (spine faded). Illustrated edition featuring 37 coloured compositions by Serge de Solomko, including an illustrated cover, frontispiece and vignettes within the text: 9 full-page illustrations, one on the title page and several as headpieces. Print run of 1,000 numbered copies. One of 100 copies on Arches or Japon vellum (2nd paper, this one on Japon no. 85) initialled by the publisher, with a black-and-white sequence bound in fine, the sequences of full-page illustrations with notes.

-Madame de LA FAYETTE. La Princesse de Clèves. Paris, Ferroud, 1925. In-8, 220 pp. Modern tobacco-coloured half-maroquin, ribbed spine, author and title in gold, cold-stamped fillet bordering the ribs and covers, gilt edges (spine slightly faded, interior fresh). An illustrated edition featuring numerous colour plates within the text by Serge de Solomko, including 1 frontispiece, 8 full-page illustrations, as well as vignettes and end-paper illustrations. One of 75 copies on Imperial Japanese paper (no. 85). Accompanied by a double set of colour and black-and-white plates with notes.

-Anatole FRANCE. Le Miracle de la Pie. Paris, Ferroud, 1921. In-8, 46 pp. Half-havana morocco with corners, spine with 4 raised raised bands, author and title in gold, blind-stamped fillet on the covers, cover preserved, gilt head, untrimmed (spine slightly faded, small marginal stains on 2 plates of the suite). Illustrated edition featuring 18 colour plates by Maurice Lalau, including a title vignette, a frontispiece, and 16 in-text vignettes (4 full-page and 5 headpieces). Special uncommercial copy, marked ‘HC’ on imperial Japanese paper and initialled by the publisher. Enriched with a set of black-and-white engravings with annotations on Chinese paper.

-Anatole FRANCE. Frère Joconde. Paris, Ferroud, 1923. In-12, 79 pp. Brown half-morocco, spine with 5 raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised raised rais An illustrated edition featuring numerous compositions by Léon Lebègue, coloured using stencils, including vignettes and initials, a frontispiece, and four full-page illustrations enhanced with gilt edges. Limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies on Japanese paper or vellum, the latter on Japanese paper reserved for the publisher Ferroud, bearing his signature. Illustrations in four states: the final state, a colour suite, a blue suite, a black suite; and a rejected engraving.

-Anatole FRANCE. Le petit soldat de plomb. Paris, Ferroud, 1919. In-16, VII-36 pp. Light brown half-morocco with bands, smooth spine, author and title gilded, date stamped at the bottom, gilded head, cover preserved (spine slightly faded). Illustrated edition with compositions by Gustave Adolphe Mossa, in colour within the text, including 4 full-page illustrations. Printed in an edition of 1,500 copies: 1 of 200 on Japanese paper or vellum containing two versions of the illustrations, one of which is in black with a note, this copy on Japanese paper no. 157.

-SAMAIN. Hyalis, the little blue-eyed faun. Paris, Ferroud, 1918. In-8, 59 pp. Modern light brown half-morocco, ribbed spine, author and title gilded, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (spine faded). An illustrated edition featuring 57 illustrations in the text by Gustav-Adolf Mossa, hand-coloured by Eugène Charpentier, including an illustrated cover and half-title page, a frontispiece, a vignette on the title page, 6 full-page illustrations, numerous vignettes in the headers, footers and initials. Printed in a run of 1,020 copies: one of the 55 on Imperial Japan paper (no. 37, the second paper after 25 Grand Japan) initialled by the publisher, containing three versions of the illustrations—the final version, and two sets, the first in black on China paper, the second in colour with notes preceding the text.