About the cover:
Full-grain binding Dark blue smoothed goatskin, edge-emphasising tablecloth-like decoration over cover, spine and inner edges, hand-gilt border cord pattern with many small gold dots, yellow dots, red flames and small brown rectangles in leather overlay, natural cut, light brown leather endpapers, mirror and flying leaf beige moiré silk. Leather-bound slipcase covered with coloured paper.
About the content:
Anatole France: La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque
With 176 woodcuts (black or brownish and reddish) by Auguste Leroux
Ex. No. 114 of 333 on Vélin du Marais from a total of 410 copies
Éditions d'art Édouard Pelletan, Paris 1912 The plot of the novel takes place at the beginning of the 18th century. Jacques, the narrator and son of the owner of a cookshop, is prepared for life by a rather dubious clientele and gets caught up in convoluted machinations.
About the artists: The bookbinder Édouard Poullain, born around 1875, and the gilder Em. Renard. Born in 1874, they founded the company Poullain & Renard in Dijon after the First World War and ran it together until 1956. Some of their works were also signed by their employee and gilder P. Leroy.
