"Le Livre Des Mille Nuits" Beautifully Bound By ReEee Kieffer
Livre Des Mille Nuits. Et Une Nuit.
Paris: Henri Piazza, 1926.
CARRÉ, Léon, [illustrator]. KIEFFER, René, [Binder]. MARDRUS, J.C., [translator]. MOHAMMED, Racim. Le Livre Des Mille Nuits . Et Une Nuit. Paris: Henri Piazza, [1926].
Limited to 2,500 copies, of which this is number 2,365 printed on "velin chiffon." Complete in 12 quarto volumes. (Measures 11 11/12 x 9 in., 300 x 230 cm.). Illustrated in color with 144 full-page miniatures by Leon Carré and 85 ornamental decorations by Racim Mohammed after the original manuscripts in the Persian and Hindu edition.
Beautifully bound by René Kieffer with his small printed sticker in each volume in full dark maroon morocco, elaborately decorated in gilt on covers and spines, decorated endpapers. Original purple wrappers bound in. Minor restoration to a few headcaps, refurbished. A near fine set.
HBS 67652.
$5,500.
Price: $5,500.00
Item #67652