Anatole France — Les Contes de Jacques Tournebroche

Paris , Calmann-Levy, Editeurs , 1909. Leather. An early edition of this delicately illustrated short story collection from Anatole France. The second edition of this short story collection from Anatole France. First published in 1908.  In contemporary half black morocco, with cloth boards and marbled endpapers. With the half title.  Beautifully illustrated in colour and gilt throughout, with a title vignette, decorative title pages for each story, nine plates and numerous vignettes.  Collated, complete.  Containing nine stories, including 'Le Gab d'Olivier', 'Le Miracle de la pie', 'Le Lecon bien apprise', 'Mademoiselle Roxanne' and others. From Nobel Prize winning poet, journalist and novelist, Anatole France.  Illustrated by Leon Lebegue (1863-1930), a French lithographer, etcher, poster artist, and illustrator. He studied under the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Paris Academy and began a career as an illustrator for satirical and artistic magazines in the 1890s. Lebegue is particularly known for his numerous advertising posters.  In contemporary half black morocco, with cloth boards. Externally, with only really rubbing to the extremities, otherwise smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Leon Lebegue. Very Good .