Bourg de Thizy — Folle Avoine Page-Chevalier

Lyon, France, Editions Optic, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Publisher's cardboard, vignette on the cover. An artistic rendition of the medieval legend of the young â€oeFolle Avoine” and Princess Jehanne. Plentiful vignettes printed in duotone and tritone, and with a half-colored-in double page, perhaps to be completed by young readers; the same for the decoration of the guards. An interesting homage wholly in French by Bourg de Thizy, copyright 1944, published in Lyon, France, in 1945, with fanciful illustrations by Jean-Francois Robelin-Millet. Published by Éditions O.P.T.I.C. (Imprimé par B. Arnaud, Villeurbanne), bound in publisher's cardboard, illustrated, with black cloth tape-backing. Moderately rubbed and mildly soiled boards, protected now in stiff plastic. Full color and black-and-white illustrations, including hors-texte, 18 of them. Central double page, sumptuous illustration, framed text. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Clean, unmarked interior, Jean-François Millet (4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France, according to his Wikipedia entry, "noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon drawings, and etchings." Millet is considered to have inspired Vincent van Gogh and even to Claude Monet, Georges Seurat and others. He is famous for "The Gleaners," "L'homme à la houe," and for inspiring poems by Edwin Markham and David Middleton (Wikipedia). This is a fine exemplar of an item scarce in the trade.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good