Aucassin and Nicolette: An Old French Love Story [number 5 of Foulis's 'Envelope Book' Christmas Series]

15 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, and London: T.N. Foulis, [1897] Hard cover, in gray cloth with color illustration to cover, the titles and framing blocked with darker gray and gold, with title in gold to the spine. Has the original glassine wrapper, now in mylar. Also, with the original gifting to/from 2-color sheet tucked within. Contains four color illustrations upon gray card tipped in, signed K. Cameron..(4) 67,(3)pp. CONDITION: Near Fine. Some mild foxing to prelims, not affecting plates. Endpapers slightly browned. Glassine has some small losses at head and foot of spine but remains generally clean, and has done its job to keep the boards tidy.**Glasgow Artist Katherine Cameron (1874-1965) trained at the Glasgow School of Art contemporaneously with the "Immortals," famously among them the artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, in the late 1880's and early 1890's. These images reflect the Glasgow style of Art Nouveau, using watercolor, delicate pen and ink work and attenuated, twining figures. Cameron would adopt a different style for her later work, which included etchings, landscapes and sometimes riotously-colored illustrations of flowers. Cover image: "She Clad Herself in Rich Silk Stuffs" Inside: "Aucassin Made Her Lady Of Beaucaire", "She Took Her Dress in One Hand Before And In the Other Hand, He Held His Horse By the Bridle" and They Began to Go Along the Shore." Printed by Neil and Co., Ltd. Edinburgh. Text selected from MacMillan's second edition (1897) "just published," according to the introduction.**The advertising for the series at the rear of the book identifies this as the first variant binding, selling for 1/- net originally: "The Most Attractive Series of Christmas Booklets on the Market to Be Had of All Booksellers." This is not listed in Colin White's 2007 Jessie M. King bibliography,however other JMK and Cameron joint-illustrated versions of this tile ARE listed; (See B114. p.62) Definitely a very nice, stocking-sized, treasure for that special someone. . Part of the Foulis "Envelope Book" Christmas Gift Book Series. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by Katherine Cameron, R.S.W. .