Henry Jacques / Kay NIELSEN - Sous le Signe du Rossignol - 1923

Henry Jacques: Under the Sign of the Nightingale

39 delightful compositions by Kay Nielsen, of which 19 are printed in color on coated, mounted paper as full-page plates with wide borders and captioned serpents, and 20 engravings including one on the cover, one title page, 6 hors-texte, 6 headers, and 6 illuminated initials.
Text printed within a frame of three green rules.

1 of 1500 copies numbered on Japanese paper, no. 168

Beautiful half-binding with corners, spine with raised bands

In-4 (30.5 x 23.5 cm), 102 pages
The Art Edition by H. Piazza, 1923

Very fine copy.
Attention! No shipment possible to the United States in the present postal conditions.

In-person viewing possible in Paris

Kay Nielsen (1886-1957)
The Dane Nielsen is the third great illustrator of the luxurious English books published in the early 20th century (alongside Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac). He arrived in England in 1912 after eight years in Montparnasse, and in 1913 he received a commission for twenty-four watercolors intended to illustrate a volume of old tales, In Powder and Crinoline. The following year, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, a collection of fifteen Norwegian tales, appeared. It was not until 1924 that Hodder & Stoughton published Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales begun in 1912. The last book, Hänsel and Gretel, illustrated with twelve watercolors, was published in 1925.