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[UK - Eragny Press] COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor Christabel, Kubla Khan, Fancy in nubibus, and song from Zapolya. (London, Eragny Press, sold by the Eragny Press and John Lane, New York, October 8vo. Publisher's binding: half grey paper, green patterned paper with violets in mauve and green on covers, gilt-stamped title on front cover, flat spine. In a folder with green morocco label with gilt title and same leather-edged slipcase. Uncut copy. Illustrated with a Chiaroscuro frontispiece "Christabel" wood-engraved by and after Lucien Pissarro ("perhaps the most subtle and successful of Lucien's chiaroscuro prints", Fern catalogue n. 153), a full-page floral border in green on p. 7 and initials (the first in red) by Lucien and engraved by his wife Esther. Eragny's mark on last leaf. Text in "Brook type" printed in red, black and green. Edition limited to copies (incl. on vellum), of which paper and 8 vellum copies were for sale, one of the on Arches hand-made paper. Ref. Ransom, Eragny Press, - The gentle art of Pissarro, - Tomkinson, Eragny Press, Prov. "To Alfred & Juliette Isaacson from Lucien & Esther Isaacson [?], 1904". Alfred was Camille Pissarro's nephew, the son of his half-sister (ms. dedication).