Lot 188

Lot 188

[Puss in Boots] Perrault, Charles. Le Chat Botte. Signed First and Limited Edition

Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

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[Puss in Boots] [Fischer, Hans] Perrault, Charles. Le Chat Botte

Lausanne: Andre et Pierre Gonin, (1960). First and limited edition, #2/35 numbered copies on Japon nacre, signed by the publisher Pierre Gonin (from a total edition of 270). 4to. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white lithographs, by Hans Fischer, and with an additional suite of lithographs in various states. Text and plates loose as issued in original hand-made paper wrappers; in original quarter vellum over patterned paper-covered slip case and chemise.

A fine and scarce French edition of Hans Fischer's illustrated Puss in Boots. Fischer's work first appeared in 1957 in German, with this edition published two years following the artist's death in 1958.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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From the collection of Justin G. Schiller

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