163 - ANDERSEN (H.-C.). Stories and Adventures. New translation, with a preface by Eugène Rodrigues. Original etchings and woodcuts by Alexandre Lunois. Paris: Published by the artist, 1909. Large 8vo, green morocco, oval mosaic floral decoration on the covers, ribbed spine with ornamentation and mosaic, lining of havana morocco with thread accents. thick and thin gold leaf, silk endpapers, double endpapers, edges gilt on endpapers, illustrated cover and spine intact (Noulhac, 1923).

ANDERSEN (H.-C.). Stories and Adventures. New translation, with a preface by Eugène Rodrigues. Original etchings and woodcuts by Alexandre Lunois. Paris: Published by the artist, 1909. Large 8vo, green morocco, oval mosaic floral decoration on the covers, ribbed spine with ornamentation and mosaic, lining of havana morocco with thread accents. thick and thin gold leaf, silk endpapers, double endpapers, edges gilt on endpapers, illustrated cover and spine intact (Noulhac, 1923). PRINTED IN A RUN OF 146 COPIES; this one, numbered on watermarked laid paper, is accompanied by one of the ten separate sets, justified and signed by the artist, on thin Chinese paper, woodcuts and etchings, the latter in two different states, including the pure etching. This superb copy is further enhanced by FOUR ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, signed by Lunois, which were used to prepare two of the etchings. This beautiful artist’s book, modeled after “A Rebours,” was entirely composed by the painter and engraver Alexandre Lunois, who printed it on his hand-cranked presses and illustrated it with 52 original etchings and 80 woodcuts engraved by Mademoiselle Suzanne Lepère, printed in color. From the Marcel Pognon Library (ex-libris, auction of Dec. 6, 1962, Lot No. 3 in the catalog).