KIPLING (Rudyard). Kim. Translated by Louis Fabulet and Ch. Fountaine-Walker. Lausanne, Gonin et Cie, n.d. [1930]. 4 volumes in-4° (including 2 for the supplements), in loose sheets, with illustrated covers, folders, and the publisher’s slipcase. Color illustrations by François Louis SCHMIED, including a frontispiece and fourteen separate plates. Printed in an edition of 160 copies; this one (no. 120) is on antique Japanese paper. Copy enriched with THREE “SEQUELS FOR KIM ” OF FIFTEEN PLATES EACH, two of which are in color on antique Japanese paper, signed by the artist and housed in labeled sleeves (no. 64 & no. 12/160), and the third in black on vellum. Case damaged; sleeves faded with some damage. Cichocka, Gustave Miklos, pp. 123–126 (where several preparatory compositions for this work are reproduced).
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KIPLING (Rudyard).
Kim. Translated by Louis Fabulet and Ch. Fountaine-Walker. Lausanne, Gonin et Cie, n.d. [1930]. 4 volumes in-4° (including 2 for the supplements), in loose sheets, with illustrated covers, folders, and the publisher’s slipcase.
Color illustrations by François Louis SCHMIED, including a frontispiece and fourteen separate plates.
Printed in an edition of 160 copies; this one (no. 120) is on antique Japanese paper.
Copy enriched with THREE “SEQUELS FOR KIM ” OF FIFTEEN PLATES EACH, two of which are in color on antique Japanese paper, signed by the artist and housed in labeled sleeves (no. 64 & no. 12/160), and the third in black on vellum.
Case damaged; sleeves faded with some damage.
Cichocka, Gustave Miklos, pp. 123–126 (where several preparatory compositions for this work are reproduced).
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