Album de poèmes tirés du Livre de jade

Artist Lucien Pissarro (French, 1863-1944)

Publisher Eragny Press, the Brook, Hammersmith, London, 1911

Printer Eragny Press, The Brook, Hammersmith, London (Esther and Lucien Pissarro, assisted by T. Taylor)

Author Judith Gautier (French, 1845-1917)

Date1911

Dimensionsbox: 8 5/8 x 6 x 9/16 in. (219 x 152 x 15mm)
book: 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 in. (194 x 130mm)
page: 7 5/8 x 3 7/8 in. (194 x 98mm)

MediumOriginal prints: 22 wood-engravings in color (engraved by Lucien and Esther Pissarro), incl. ornaments and printer's device Text: letterpress (typeface: Brook Type) Paper: Japanese vellum

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineFrederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund

Object number

1984.16

Not on View

Label TextLucien Pissarro, the son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, settled in England in 1890. Four years later he, and his wife Esther, established the Eragny Press (named for the Pissarro home in Normandy) in their Hammersmith home called "The Brook" (the name used for Pissarro's type face). Over the course of twenty years, the published thirty-two books. As can be seen by this delightful book, Eragny Press books were usually small in format, delicately colorful, and tastefully decorative. The elegant design of THE BOOK OF JADE, a collection of brief poems inspired by the beauty found in the Far East, is as alluring and refined as treasured Chinese silk.