The queen of the fishes
Subtitle: an adaptation in English of a fairy tale of Valois
By: by Margaret Rust ; with illustrations designed on the wood, cut and printed by Lucien Pissarro
Contributors: Pissarro, Lucien, 1863-1944; Eragny Press
Publisher: Sold by John Lane at the sign of the Bodley Head
Published: 1894
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Notes: "'Vale publications.' [Eragny Press device] This books has been printed in 1894, by Lucien Pissarro at his press in Epping (Essex.)"--Colophon.

The first book printed at the Eragny Press. "Vale publications" is so called after the house of C.S. Ricketts, who shortly thereafter founded the Vale Press and likewise marketed his books through John Lane; on the association of the two presses see R. Cave, The private press (2nd ed., 1983), p. 116-117.

"The issue is strictly limited to one hundred and fifty copies, of which one hundred and twenty are for sale, this is no. ..."--Prelim. p. [1].

Text hand-written and printed from process relief plates; wood-engraved illustrations. Printed on double leaves. Bound as issued in limp vellum, with iris vignette in gold on front cover.

Tomkinson, G.S.  Modern presses, p. 62 (no. 1)

Franklin, C.  Private presses (2nd ed.), p. 263.