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Rare copies, one of 150 on Dutch Van Gelder paper in the form (N 150) with a complete suite in black of the brocaded illustration at the end of the book (before the copies on drawing paper from the Papeteries Royales de Maestricht) .
Complete copy of the suite in black.
P.-L. Duchartre was one of the very first publishers to work on the aesthetic Renaissance of children's books. Author of a reference work on "popular imagery", he entrusts the text here to J.-J. Brousson, a scholar who provides the volume with a glossary of medieval terms and the illustrations to Olesiewiecz who by pastiche 15th century engravings and illuminations creates an original illustration with 57 hand-applied, pattern-colored compositions.
Condition: Slightly pierced corners and slight traces of dirt on the boards otherwise in very good condition.
Jean-Jacques Brousson / Sigismond Olesiewicz
Joan of Arc - Her story told for young people and illustrated in the style of the fifteenth century by Sigismond Olesiewicz
Paris, Editions Duchartre & Van Buggenhoudt, 1928
folio (40 x 29 cm); 53 + 53 p.
Subject: Childina Brousson ill. Olesiewicz Illuminations Middle Ages History Joan of Arc Infolio 1928 67462513
