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Le roi des aulnes = Erlkönig / ballade de Goethe et musique de Schubert ; traduction nouvelle de Catulle Mendès ; décorée de treize compositions en couleurs par Bellery-Desfontaines ; gravures d'Ernest Florian.

Accession number
PML 140682
Creator
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Published
Paris : E. Pelletan, 1904.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
Parallel texts of Goethe's ballad in German and French, followed by Schubert's musical score, with both the French and German lyrics provided in the arrangement.
Color-printed wood-engraved illustrations by Florian after Bellery-Desfontaines; various headpieces, initials, borders, and fleurons, and 5 full-page illustrations (counted in foliation).
Ed of 214 numbered copies.
Library has copy no. 8 of 12 copies on japon with a suite of progressive color proofs on chine, this copy for M. le Docteur Henri Voisin.
Printed by at the Imprimerie Nationale by Stègre under the direction of Arthur Christian.
Uncut.
Description
[25] leaves : ill. (col. wood engraving), music ; 30 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Brown mosaic morocco by René Kieffer, with his ticket, original wrappers bound in; in slipcase.
Classification
Department