NOBLE, Eustache Le — The Whimsical Adventures of Blaise Gaulard. With hand-drawn illustrations by Chodowiecki....

NOBLE, Eustache Le—The Whimsical Adventures of Blaise Gaulard. With hand-drawn illustrations by Chodowiecki. Edited by Hans Timotheus Kroeber. Weimar, 1915. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag. 16d, pp. [4], 40, [2], XX, [1], 42 plates. Original parchment binding, top edge stained.
Cover scuffed, endpapers slightly soiled; otherwise in good condition. Ex-libris. A bibliophile edition of a tale about the adventures of Blaise Gaulard, a traveler and adventurer. The work was written in the late 18th century and bears the distinct characteristics of the picaresque novel, which was in vogue at the time. The text gained popularity thanks to a series of 42 illustrations created by Daniel Chodowiecki, then 26 years old, an outstanding Polish-German draftsman and printmaker. This edition contains reproductions of all the drawings in this series, which are held in private collections. A total of 550 copies were printed; this is No. 338 (one of 370 copies in half-parchment binding).