Les Mois. Douze compositions. Paris: G. de Malherbe, [1896]. Comprising 12 color wood-engraved plates. 4to (310 x 242 mm). Cloth-backed printed boards; custom silk box. Few very pale spots to January plate, mild toning to boards and endpapers. Grasset produced Les Mois as a calendar for La Belle Jardinière; each engraving features a lovely young lady tending her garden. "A lady’s book à la mode with comely maidens dressed in 'aesthetic' free-flowing costumes. These garden settings are a foil for [Grasset's] sense of formalized surface patterns." Harvard, Turn of a Century 1885-1910, 50. See illustration.
Les Mois. Douze compositions. Paris: G. de Malherbe, [1896]. Comprising 12 color wood-engraved plates. 4to (310 x 242 mm). Cloth-backed printed boards; custom silk box. Few very pale spots to January plate, mild toning to boards and endpapers. Grasset produced Les Mois as a calendar for La Belle Jardinière; each engraving features a lovely young lady tending her garden. "A lady’s book à la mode with comely maidens dressed in 'aesthetic' free-flowing costumes. These garden settings are a foil for [Grasset's] sense of formalized surface patterns." Harvard, Turn of a Century 1885-1910, 50. See illustration.
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