Un Coeur Simple

An excellent copy, just a couple of small marks to the front cover and some very pale foxing to first and last gatherings.

Lucien Pissarro set up the Eragny Press with his wife Esther in the 1890s. Based in London, it was baptised Eragny after the small town north of Paris where his father, the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, had taught him to paint. In the twenty years of its existence, the press published thirty-two books, all beautifully crafted and printed in small runs. Though a product of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, the Eragny Press retained a French sensibility, particularly in the illustration, that sets it apart from the other small presses of the period.

This copy of Flaubert's short story Un Coeur Simple is illustrated with Lucien's wood-engraving. The initials and borders were designed by him and engraved by Esther.