Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(ERAGNY PRESS.) Bacon, Francis. Of Gardens. Printed in black, green and red. Frontispiece designed and engraved by Lucien Pissarro, double border title and initial letters designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by Esther Pissarro. Small 8vo, gilt-stamped white and floral patterned paper boards, some offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers. Donald Reichert and Norman J. Sondheim bookplates. one of 226 copies. this copy neatly signed by lucien pissarro, the founder of Eragny Press and son of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, on last blank before title. London, 1902

Additional Details

with-- Flaubert, Gustave. Un Coeur Simple. Wood-engraved frontispiece, border and initials designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by him and Esther Pissarro; woodcut printer's device at end. 12mo, original linen-backed boards, paper label on front cover, a few spots to top edges, offsetting to preliminaries and endleaves. George Dunn, Robert Frederick Green and Sondheim bookplates. one of 226 unnumbered copies. London, 1901.