?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(GRASSET, EUGÈNE.) Histoire de Quatre Fils Aymon. Chromolithographed illustrations by Grasset printed by Charles Gillot. 4to, red morocco with gold floral borders, spines, and turn-ins, by Stoakley, hinges tender and starting; original wrappers bound in; top edges trimmed and gilt; bookplate of Walter Rippmann and inscription to him by Edward Wertheimer on front free endpaper; custom plain cloth slipcase. Regular edition after the limited edition of 200. Paris: H. Launette, 1883
The book that was a "turning point in the history of illustrated books" and that "became an inexhaustible source for other artists as Art Nouveau became the dominant style of the period"--Ray, Volume II, 357; Vicaire IV, page 142.
