KIPLING (Rudyard). Kim. Translated by Louis FABULET and Ch. - Lot 190

KIPLING (Rudyard). Kim. Translated by Louis FABULET and Ch. FOUNTAINE-WALKER. Lausanne, Gonin et Cie, s. d. [1930]. 4 volumes in-4° (2 of which are sequels), leaves, in illustrated covers, publisher's folders and slipcase. Color illustrations by François Louis SCHMIED, including a frontispiece and fourteen hors-texte plates. Printed in an edition of 160 copies, this one (no. 120) on Japon Antiquaire. Enriched with THREE "SUITE[S] POUR KIM" OF FIFTEEN CHACUNE PLATES, two in color on old japon signed by the artist and in captioned folders (no. 64 & no. 12/160), & the third in black on vellum. Slipcase split over 20 cm; folders faded with a few accidents. Cichocka, Gustave Miklos, pp. 123-126 (where some of the preparatory compositions for this work are reproduced).