Histoire des Quatre Fils Aymon: Très Nobles et Très Vaillans Chevaliers
Artist: Eugène Samuel Grasset (French, 1841-1917)
Publisher: H. Launette, éditeur, Paris, 1883
Printer: Charles Gillot, Paris
Binder: S. David, [s.l.]
Author: Renaut de Montauban (12th century)
Date: 1883
Dimensions:
book: 11 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (282 x 232mm)
page: 11 x 8 5/8 in. (280 x 219mm)
Medium: Reproductions: color relief etchings from designs by Grasset
Text: letterpress
Paper: China laid paper
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Mrs. George W. Stevens Fund
Object number: 1986.29
Label Text:The story is apopular version of the legend of Charlemagne and his barons. Grasset's book, full of lavish and colorful decorations, served as a seminal forerunner of French art nouveau book design. Unlike most books of the period, Grasset devised elaborate pictorial borders which surrounded the pages of type and integrated with the text in an innovative way. Images of the Middle Ages intermix with Celtic and Japanese ornament, showing Grasset's inspiration from the medieval manuscript decorations he had studied.
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