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[UK - Eragny Press] PERRAULT, Charles Histoire de peau d'âne. (Conte de ma mère Loye). (Hammersmith, London, Hacon and Ricketts, Eragny Press, September) 8vo. Publisher's binding: half blue paper, patterned paper with repeated blank and blue design on covers, gilt-stamped title on front cover, flat spine (spotting, flyleaves browned). Uncut copy. Nicely illustrated with 3 woodcuts by the poet and artist Thomas Sturge Moore a frontispiece "Geese", large floral borders on pp. 8-9 and initials by Lucien Pissarro engraved by him and his wife Esther. Eragny's mark on last leaf. Text in "Vale type" printed in red and black. Edition limited to unnumbered copies on Arches hand-made paper, of which for sale. Ref. Ransom, Eragny Press, - The gentle art of Lucien Pissarro - Moore, p. - Tomkinson, Eragny Press, *** Joliment illustré de 3 bois in-texte par Th. Sturge Moore, d'1 frontispice, d'encadrements ornementés aux pp. 8-9 et d'initiales. Rel. d'édition.