Fine Books and Manuscripts

Folio (457 x 330 mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black, 40 plates reproducing Mucha's designs printed in brown, bistre, blue, and green. (Bifolium half-title and title-page cleanly torn at fold, some minor marginal chipping or tears, slightly browned.) Loose as issued in publisher's pictorial cloth-backed portfolio (joints split, some soiling and wear, ties torn). FIRST EDITION of Mucha's last work for Librairie Centrale des Beaux Arts. COMPLETE SETS ARE RARE ON THE MARKET AT AUCTION.