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The queen of the fishes : an adaptation in English of a fairy tale of Valois / by Margaret Rust with illustrations designed on the wood cut and printed by Lucien Pissarro.

Accession number
PML 88143
Creator
Rust, Margaret.
Published
London : Sold by John Lane, at the sign of the Bodley Head, in Vigo Street ; [Epping, Essex : Vale Publications, Eragny Press], 1894 [i.e. 1895]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Published in February 1895.
Illustrations: twelve wood engravings: four 4-block color engravings; one 5-block color engraving that includes gold; seven monochrome engravings.
With Pissarro's hand-lettered type, reproduced from process blocks.
Issued with most leaves folded in the Japanese style, printed on one side only.
Some leaves on PML copy have been opened.
"The issue is strictly limited to one hundred and fifty copies, of which, one hundred and twenty are for sale."--Limitations.
Library's copy is no. 78.
Library's copy was shown at the Buchgewerbliche Weltausstellung, Leipzig 1914, by the owner, Wanda Frischen-Carus.
Description
14 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Wanda Frischen-Carus; from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Publisher's vellum, gilt stamped with iris motif, top edge gilt; in pink cloth slipcase with title label.
Classification
Department