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65 GIACOMETTI, Alberto – LELY, Gilbert. La Folie Tristan. Paris: Jean Hugues, Libraire, 1959 with a signed giacometti etching First edition, number 5 of 50 copies signed by the author and the engraver. Giacometti illustrates an Anglo-Norman poem from the 12th century, issued as the first of three works in the series “Le cri de la fée” (“The cry of the fairy”). Small octavo. Original white wrappers, lettering to spine, front cover, and vignette to back cover in black. Printed
original artwork of a demon from hindu mythology
on pure vellum rag paper. Original double-page etching frontispiece printed on a single sheet by Giacometti. Sheet size: 15.4 × 20.5 cm. All in excellent condition. £10,000 [157062] 66 GOBLE, Warwick (illus ); DAY, Lal Behari “At the door of which stood a lady of exquisite beauty”. 1912
Published within Rev. Lal Behari Day’s Folk-Tales of Bengal in 1912, this illustration from “The Story of the Rakshasas” shows a “fair lady” who is a Rakshasi or “raw-eater” who has “eaten up the king, the queen, and all the members of the royal family, and gradually all his subjects”. It is reproduced opposite page 62. Warwick Goble (1862–1943) specialized in Indian- and Japanese-themed illustrations during the Golden Age of illustrated books. A review in The Times of India praised the book production and noted “best of all
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