Les Sept Femmes de La Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux

Paris: Librairie Des Amaterus, A. Ferroud. - F. Ferroud, 1921.
First Thus.

25.5cm x 17cm. [iv], 244, [2] pages, 86 plates, colour illustrations in the text, title vignettes. Full ornate blue leather, inlaid green leather frame and geometric gilt border, four raised bands, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, ornate gilt dentelles, leather doublures, silk and marbled endpapers and flyleaves, half leather and marbled papered chemise, marbled papered slipcase.

Bluebeard’s Seven Wives and Other Wonderful Tales. France’s reinterpretation of the French folktale of Bluebeard. First published in 1909, this is the first edition with illustrations by Gustav-Adolf Mossa. One of 70 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states (from a total edition of 1,200). This copy from the collection of Australian actor and bibliophile Barry Humphries, with his bookplate, in a fine signed binding by Flammarion bookbinder Jean Vaillant.

Minor closed tears to fore-edge of front silk endpaper. Very minor tanning to chemise spine. Minor shelf wear to slipcase. Near Fine Condition.

AU$3,000.00

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