Aucassin and Nicolete: done from the Old French by Michael West. Depictured by Main R. Bocher. Music by Horace Mansion. Decorated by Evelyn Paul.

LIMITED TO 125 COPIES ONLY
ATTRACTIVELY ILLUSTRATED & DECORATED
first edition thus, edition limited to 125 copies 4to. [124]pp. including 21 pages of music, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Main R. Bocher mounted inside elaborate decorative borders in terracotta, elaborate decorative borders and illustrations and decorative initials throughout in black and teracotta, full-page illustrations in black, four elaborate coloured pages decorated by Evelyn Paul, publisher's full vellum, front board with an elaborate decorative title panel [by Paul?] in colours and gilt, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers, some very light toning and offsetting, boards a little marked, else a very good copy.
This No. 39 of 125 copies signed by Evelyn Paul and with a very small and neat former owner's signature below that of Evelyn Paul on limitation leaf.

Aucassin & Nicolette is medieval French romance. It deals with the love of Aucassin for the Saracen captive Nicolette. Count Garin, Aucassin's father is bitterly opposed to the marriage and imprisons the lovers. They escape and after many adventures and accidents of fate the young lovers are wed and Nicolette is revealed to be the daughter of the King of Carthage. The music for this edition was written by Horace Mansion.The American artist and couturier artist Main R. Bocher (1890 - 1976) after moving to Paris during World War I worked there as fashion illustrator for Harper's Bazaar, and as Paris fashion editor for Vogue (1922-1929) and as editor-in-chief of the French edition of Vogue in early 1927. He realized that his critical eye and feeling for fashion could serve him as a couturier designer and he founded an eponymous fashion label in 1929.
Evelyn Maude Blanche Paul (1883 – 1963) was an English artist best known for her book illustrations including those which replicated the style of medieval illuminations.