[ENFANTINA]. STRYJRNSKIEJ, Zofja. - Lot 216

[ENFANTINA]. STRYJRNSKIEJ, Zofja. Koledy. Warsaw, Rola, 1926 Small folio. (2)-45-(2) pp. printed on handmade Van Gelder Zonen imitation Japanese paper (czerpany paper). Cream-colored Bradel cloth binding by the publisher, title in red on the top cover (one illustration appears to be missing). Illustrations featuring rustic motifs by Sophie Stryjenska, who won the Grand Prix at the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925. Rare. A limited edition in Polish of the book *Koledy* (Christmas Carols), illustrated by the famous Polish artist Zofia Stryjenska. Published in 1926 in Warsaw by Jan Burian. Limited to 1,200 copies. It includes 9 color illustrations mounted on the pages as well as 10 in-text illustrations of angels. The title page also features two angels. A summary in French begins on p. 45. Children’s book. Rare edition. Included: -BONABEL. POURTALES, G. de. Les Contes du milieu du monde. Paris, Gallimard, 1947. Large 8vo, contemporary beige cloth binding. -LUCAS. MORGAN (ill.). Mr. Punch Children’s Book. Publisher’s illustrated cardboard binding, London (slightly scuffed); color illustrations using chromolithography stencils. CARTOON. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and collector of bookbindings, a flutist, and a lover of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the decorative arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.