La légende de St. Julien l’hospitalier.

Eragny Press, Hammersmith, 1900

The first printing of the series of three Flaubert editions by Lucien Pissaro. One of 226 copies.

Description: Original quarter buff cloth with blue paper-covered boards and printed paper label to front. Sextodecimo: 15 × 10 cm; pp. 92, [3]. With wood engraved frontispiece ‘Deer in the Forest’ and the Eragny device (3rd stage), designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by Esther Pissarro. Printed from ‘Vale’ type on Arnold’s unbleached hand-made paper with ‘Vale’ watermark.

Ref.: Genz EP7

Condition: Spine and covers with very minor abrasions and marks of usage. Hint of slight tanning to free endpapers. First few leaves slightly foxed, otherwise in very good condition.