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RUST, Margaret. The Queen of the Fishes. An Adaptation in English of a Fairy Tale of Valois. Epping: Eragny Press, 1894. 4° (192 x 136mm). 12 woodcut illustrations by Lucien Pissarro, 5 printed in colours, without the printed limitation leaf (some very light mainly marginal staining). Original vellum with 2 stylised gilt floral motifs on upper cover, top edges gilt (bowed). ONE OF 150 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST, a front free endpaper inscribed, "No. 142. To Mr and Mrs Verity. In remembrance of Nov. 21st 1894 from [Lucien Pissaro's monogram]." Tomkinson p.66 (see previous lot for a variant binding).
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