EDY-LEGRAND. MACAO ET COSMAGE ou l'expérience du bonheur. P., Aux Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1919. Large in-4 square paperback; (26) ff. illustrated endpapers. Spine missing, body of book largely disbound. ORIGINAL EDITION of this RARE AND PRECIOUS BOOK FOR CHILDREN, the first enfantina published by Gallimard. In the aftermath of the First World War, Gallimard commissioned the young painter EDY-LEGRAND (1892-1970), pseudonym of Édouard Warschawsky, to produce this splendid children's book. It comprises 54 color plates, including endpapers, as well as the illustration on the 1st cover and a vignette on the 2nd cover. AS IS.

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