Le livre des ballades
By: Paul Fort ; illustré par Arthur Rackham
Contributors: Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939; Gruel, Léon, 1841-1923, binder; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: L'edition d'art H. Piazza
Published: 1921
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 108
Notes: Edition of 1300 copies.

No. 1164.

The colored plates are those originally published in Some British ballads: London : Constable, 1919. They are used here to illustrate a text written by Fort.

" ... cet ouvrage mille trois cents exemplaires dont trois cents avec un état en couleurs."

Rare Book copy 2: No. 13, with an extra set of color plates bound at end.

Latimore, S.B. and Haskell, G.C.  Arthur Rackham, p. 51.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy 2: In contemporary French binding of full brown goatskin; sewn on five supports that correspond to five raised bands on the spine; gilt lettering on spine; seven-line fillet frame in blind on upper and lower covers; inner joint of brown goatskin; turn-ins tooled in black and gold; free endpapers lined with teal watered silk; doublure of teal watered silk; board edges gold- and blind-tooled; top edge gilt; three-color silk endbands sewn with a front bead; original wrappers bound in; signed "Gruel" at tail end of upper turn-in; ticket of Léon Gruel on lower free endpaper.