Description:
Precious book "Le livre de la Jungle" by Rudyard Kipling. Engravings on wood by Louis - Joseph Soulas. Spectacular edition, from the year 1930. Written in French. It maintains in the same bookbinding, the original tapas and the back of the time, something rare and uncommon. On the page after the page, the numbering of the book appears. This is the South papier specimen of Rives, No. LVIII (58). Printed by Numa. Explanation of numbering of books is given on page 265. This particular one is among the 72 specimens of south Japan, numbered from 4 to 75. We deduce that it is a rather rare specimen.
Binding made by Trinckvel, with its own stamp, on the upper left edge of the first page. Binding stitched in vintage Dutch, with leather corner. Author, title and date, golden on the back, with four nerves. It has numerous illustrations of good quality, divided between illustrations outside text, inserted in the text and at the head of each chapter, at the end of each chapter and in capitular letters. It also has some engraving, of great quality.
Guards with paper of water, two leaves of respect, original cover, page, legal page with numbering, engraving, cover, content, page of legal with the explanation of the numbering, three leaves of respect, original back cover along with original loin , two leaves of respect, guards with paper of waters. Deburring and gilding the upper cut. Without deburring the rest. Good margins. Some rust stains inside. The binding is kept in very good condition.
Comments:
Because differences in tonalities between photos and reality are inevitable, it must be borne in mind that the color tones of the photos are not exactly the same as the tones of the actual colors. It presents the own attrition of its time, as well as some stains. It has small damages. The data provided here are personal opinions not verified. SHIPMENTS ARE MADE MONDAY.
2590 - Book Le livre de la jungle. The book of the jungle...