The Song-Story of Aucassin & Nicolette (Signed)
Lexington, Kentucky: Gravesend Press, 1957.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.
Produced by Joseph Graves and hand-printed by Jacob Hammer on dampened Hayle handmade paper at the Gravesend Press in an edition of two hundred copies. Fritz Kredel has hand-carved the music & woodcut illustrations used in this edition. Signed by artist Fritz Kredel on the colophon.
Andrew Lang's 1887 translation of the anonymous medieval French romantic chantefable Aucassin & Nicolette illustrated with woodcuts by 20th-century artist and graphic designer Fritz Kredel (1900-1973) in the medieval style.
Item #9024115-3/8 x 8-1/8", blue silk over boards with gilt spine titles, deckled edges, 78pp, illustrated throughout with music and woodcuts by Fritz Kredel.
A few tiny dots of foxing to outer leaves, else a fine, bright, crisp copy in a modern acetate dust wrapper. A fine example of a beautiful edition.
Price: $300.00