Les Masques et les Personnages de la Comédie Italienne.
Paris, Aux Bureaux du Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1914
This is an early work by the Italian painter and stage designer Umberto Brunelleschi (1879–1949), who was also well known for his illustrations in the Gazette du Bon Ton and the Journal des Dames et des Modes.
First edition, number 22 of 415 copies on arches paper; folio (39 x 52 cm); half-title, title, [4] pp. introduction, index, 12 colour pochoir plates; two small defects to blank margin of last plate; contemporary half vellum, title in black and red and vignette painted on spine, upper wrapper bound in; slightly rubbed, lower margin of wrapper slightly cut.
Colas 1499; Hiler 740.
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