La jeunesse inalterable et la vie eternelle
Subtitle: conde populaire traduit litteralement du roumain, ouvrage orn©♭ de 67 eaux-fortes
By: traduction de William Ritter. ; Illustrations de M.A.J. Bauer. ; Decorations de G.W. Dijsselhof. ; Preface de Arsene Alexandre
Contributors: Scheltema & Holkema; Mouton Publishers
Publisher: Scheltema & Holkema's Boekhandel
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Fairy tales; Legends; Immortalism; Juvenile literature; Translations into French; Pictorial works
Other titles: La jeunesse inalt©♭rable et la vie eternelle
Notes: Lithograph end papers by Dijsselhof.

Edition limited to 250.

Bland, D. Hist. of book illustration, p.321-323.

Text in French, translated from the original Romanian.

Catalogued 20160107 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in white vellum (parchment)  over boards. Endpapers printed with decorative patterns. Printed on wove papers in French fold. Verso of front flyleaf includes ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library, identifying copy as "[p]urchased from the income of the fund given to the Public Library of the City of Boston by Josiah Henry Benton, 1843-1917". Includes markings in pencil at head of title page verso. Annotated "Not for Sale" in black ink script beneath limitation statement on leaf following page 42. Cover title in gilt.