Description
FIRST EDITION posthumous.
ONE OF THE FIRST 75 COPIES ON JAPONFollowed by 75 copies on Hollande and 500 copies on Rives vellum.
Illustrated by Maurice Ray, with 4 full-page compositions and 13 vignettes, headpieces and lamp-ends.
Mallarmé-style adaptation of the Tales and legends from ancient India by Mary Summers, with a foreword by Edmond Bonniot.
Fine binding signed by Ateliers Laurenchet.
Red half-chagrin, spine ribbed with gilt title and date at foot, fillet over boards, gilt head. Cover preserved. Later binding signed "Ateliers Laurenchet". Corners very slightly rubbed.