L'Oeuvre Grave De Adriaen Van Ostade

Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1930. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. decorated tan printed wrappers in original glassine overwrapper. Very good. Van Ostade, Adriaen. 87 pages in text. Profusely illustrated in black and white this edition preceded the American edition by 60 years. Van Ostade, a painter and etcher was a pupil of Frans Hals. Best known for his scenes of peasant life, depicting their carousing and brawling. Chipping to backstrip extremities, wrappers and glassine, interior solid and clean.