DORE.- PERRAULT (Charles).
Tales. Drawings by Gustave Doré. Preface by P.-J. Stahl. Paris, J. Hetzel, s.d., large 4°, XXV-132 p., 40 plates out of text, full wine-leather chagrin, triple fillet framed in cold on the boards, spine with 5 nerves, gilt edges, double gilt fillet on the edges, counterplates bordered and decorated with a large gilt lace, marbled paper endpapers in carmine red (binding signed Flammarion Vaillant) One of the most beautiful books illustrated by Gustave Doré. Jean Henri Maurice Vaillant (Paris, 1885- ?), is a French bookseller and bookbinder active from 1900 to 1956. He was the son of the publisher and bookseller Nicolas-Constant Vaillant and Anne-Marie Flammarion. A nice copy free of foxing.
