[ART NOUVEAU FANTASY] CHASSANG, Maurice (author). Lucien MÉTIVET (illustrator). Le Merle Au Blanc Plumage [The White-Feathered Blackbird].

[ART NOUVEAU FANTASY] CHASSANG, Maurice (author). Lucien MÉTIVET (illustrator). Le Merle Au Blanc Plumage [The White-Feathered Blackbird]. Paris; Félix Juven Éditeur. [1902].

4to. Publisher's cream pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, elaborately blocked to spine and upper cover to an Art Nouveau design in dark green, light green, red, white, and gilt; all edges gilt; matt blue endpapers; pp. [11]-126 + [i], on fine coated stock; with decorative title-page and decoration, vignettes, 9 full-, and many half-page, plates and chapter-headings throughout, all printed in line and in colours; a very good copy with some dusting and marking to boards, rubbing and light wear to upper joint, and bruising to forecorners; internally generally clean with occasional foxing, marginal marking, and thumbing.
First edition. An elaborate Art Nouveau-influenced production consisting of three fairy tales entitled 'L'Auberge du Capricorne', 'Le Castel Enchanté' and 'La Ville de Printemps'.

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