BINDING BY STROOBANTS.

FRANCE, ANATOLE. Les Contes de Jacques Tournebroche.
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1909.
8vo. 203
x 152 mm. (4), 183, (2, 1 blank, 1) pp. Illustrated by Leon Lebegue, finely coloured and illuminated.
19th century red half morocco (signed Stroobants on upper endpaper) with gilt decoration and edges and marbled endpapers, richly gilt spine in 6 compartments, gilt title, slightly worn and rubbed to edges, untrimmed, upper edge gilt. Original printed wrappers and spine preserved. Wrappers with some foxing. Bookplate of Stig Wilton. One of 100 copies on Papier Velin d'Arches.

Jean Stroobants (1856-1922).