This Limited Edition copy (No. 26 of 150 copies) of XII Etchings Illustrating Alain Fournier’s “Le Grand Meaulnes” by Philippe Jullian was prepared as illustrations for one of the many different editions and/or translations of the novel. The etchings are presented here in a folder which has one of the etchings on the cover and the remaining etchings contained within, but not bound to, the folder. The folder was published in an edition of 150 copies, of which this is number 26.

The folder measures approximately 5 ¾ inches wide by 8 ¾ inches tall. There is some edge roughening along the edge, a slight tanning along the top edge, and a small start of tearing at the top and bottom ends of the spine. The enclosed etchings are all in fine condition. The overall condition of the folder and its contents is near-fine.

The illustrations accompanying this description show the front cover of the folder and four of the enclosed etchings.

Philippe Jullian (real name: Philippe Simounet; 11 July 1919 – 25 September 1977) was a French illustrator, art historian, biographer, aesthete, novelist, and dandy. Jullian's book illustrations are witty, ornate, and often grotesque. He produced illustrations for his own books as well as works by Honore de Ba,zac, Colette, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ronald Firbank, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde, among others. His books and articles on Art Nouveau, Symbolism, and other art movements of the fin-de-siecle helped bring about a revival of interest in the period. These include the biography Robert de Montesquio(1965), Prince of Aesthetes (1967), Esthétes et Magiciens (1969) translated as Dreamers of Decadence (1971), Les Symbolistes (1973), and The Triumph of Art Nouveau (1974). Among others, he admired French painter Antonio de La Gandara. A collector, he published his autobiography, La Brocante, which detailed the "love of small objects", in 1975. [Wikipedia]