The designs of Léon Bakst for The sleeping princess
Subtitle: a ballet in five acts after Perrault, music by Tchaikovsky
By: preface by André Levinson
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Illustrations; Ballet; Costume; Ballets russes; Sleeping Beauty (Choreographic work : Nijinska after Petipa, M)
Other titles: Sleeping princess
Work titles: Œuvre de Léon Bakst pour La belle au bois dormant
Notes: "This edition is limited to 1000 numbered copies, of which 500 are reserved for the United States of America"--Colophon.

The plates consist of a port. of Bakst by Picasso, and 54 color-printed, mounted ill. of original costume and set designs by Bakst for the 1921 Ballets russes production.

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

Color-printed, mounted title-page vignette; another color ill. mounted on p. [19].

Part of the Collection formed by Howard D. Rothschild on the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev (RB 160).

Bookplate of Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr.

Copy no. 486, one of 500 copies with the Scribner imprint of a total edition of 1000 copies.

Copy no. 475, one of 500 copies with the Scribner imprint of a total edition of 1000 copies.

Original blue cloth, spine and top edge gilt; in gray cloth case, 42 cm.

Original blue cloth, spine and top edge gilt; in gray cloth case, 42 cm.