Strosburjer Holzhauerfawle: with title copperplate and twenty illustrations by Joseph Lindebluest.

Strosburjer Holzhauerfawle: with title copperplate and twenty illustrations by Joseph Lindebluest. FROELICH (Jules) and LINDEBLUEST (Joseph) Nancy, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1885. Duodecimo (12mo), V ff + 70 pp. Half-morocco with corners binding, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorations, author and title, original cover preserved. Good overall condition, fresh interior. Faded spine. First and complete edition, copy no. 1 of 10 on Japan paper (then 200 copies on chamois paper). Frontispiece in two states. Available at L. Conquet, bookseller rue Drouot in Paris. Frontispiece in heliogravure by Dujardin. Illustrated edition with 20 black vignettes by Joseph Lindebluest (pseudonym of Alfred Touchemolin). This work includes a collection of 10 tales written in Alsatian accompanied by 20 small engravings at the beginning and end of each story. Jules Froelich (1851-1934), was an author of tales in Alsatian dialect, translations, and works on Alsace who settled in Nancy after 1870.