Princesse Badourah, La

Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, 1914. Limited to 500 Signed Copies
This Copy in a Beautiful Contemporary Binding by Franz Schauwers
With Decorations Not Found in the English Language Edition

DULAC, Edmund. La Princesse Badourah. Conte des Mille et une Nuits. Illustré par Edmond Dulac. Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, n.d. [1914].

First edition in French, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 347. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in; 294 x 221 mm). Ten mounted color plates within decorative borders.

Bound ca. 1914 by Franz [Schauwers] (stamp-signed) in three-quarter purple crushed (truncated) levant morocco with gilt rules over marbled paper boards. Smooth spine lettered and richly decorated in gilt with nine red morocco floral onlays. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Matching marbled endpapers. Original wrappers preserved.
A very fine copy in a very attractive binding.

With decorations not found in the English language editions, including nine designs of a different small tree in an urn on pages preceding each chapter; decorated initials at start of each chapter; seven tailpieces; two surrounds for for letterpress on limitation and colophon.

Hughey 31c. (Inventory #: 02891)