La Charrue d'Erable.

Paris.: Le Livre Contemporain / Eragny Press., 1912.. Full emerald Jansenist crushed morocco by Georges Cretté with his signature gilt, limp pinkish calf doublures with elaborate decorative scheme of gilt rules surrounding a field of matching gilt apple tools from the original publisher's binding retained as doublures, original apple green calf wrappers with gilt title and vignette preserved, green moiré silk endleaves, banded spine with gilt title in five compartments, a.e.g., matching morocco-edged marbled board slipcase.. 8vo. (217 x 158 mm).. Half-title with justification verso, printed title with pictorial colour woodcut decoration, 12 hors-texte original colour woodcut plates by Camille Pissarro each initialed 'CP' in the plates, 9 colour woodcut head- and tail-pieces and ten-line initials by Lucien Pissarro after Camille Pissarro, monochrome woodcut head-piece to 'Table des Matières', colophon leaf with woodcut Eragny Press device to verso; woodcut text ornaments throughout. Text and plates printed by Lucien and Esther Pissarro at the Eragny Press. One of the finest Eragny productions - Pissarro's second commission and, all in all, his finest book - with the additional discrete suite limited to 13 copies.From the edition limited to 116 copies, this copy printed for 'M. Ad. Messimy'; the separate suite of the 43 plates and and head- and tail-pieces, bound-in at the rear of the book, is on Chine and each is initialled and numbered by Lucien Pissarro in pencil.'L'illustration hors texte de ce livre a été spécialement dessinée par Camille Pissarro pour être gravée par son fils Lucien Pissarro lequel, chargé d'orner le texte et désireux d'y maintenir l'unité de décoration, y a, dans ce but, adapté le plus souvent possible des croquis de son père. Toutes les gravures sur bois ont été exécutées par Lucien et Esther Pissarro ... '. (From the achevé d'imprimer).'My father Camille Pissarro was always greatly interested in my books. He planned with me a book to deal with country work. For this purpose he designed 12 compositions to be engraved on wood in chiaroscuro. Unfortunately he died before all the blocks were engraved, but he had seen two of them and this gave me the clue to the rest ... '. (Lucien Pissarro).'Lucien regretted that his father had not lived to see the completion of their project, but he felt that he had been able to complete it as Camille Pissarro would have wished ... '. (Fern pg. 68).[Genz EP31; Tomkinson Eragny 31; Ashmolean 47; The Artist and the Book 247].