Joseph Hemard: A Short Autobiography, with a Critical Study by Marcel Valotairs and a Portrait of Hemard by Joseph Hemard (French Book Illustrators No. 1)

LIMITED EDITION No. 135 of 700 copies (First English Language Edition) Small 4to. (approx. 26.5 x 20cm) cream buckram hardback with silver gilt titles and decoration to spine and curvy wave of printed and textured paper runnihng vertically to upper and lower boards. 45pp., with 18 colour and 26 b/w illustrations. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Endpapers and edges a little browned. Some light soiling to boards and a couple of small areas of loss to wavy paper strip of lower board. Overall a Good+ Copy.