Grasset, Eugène. Les Mois (calendar leaves). 23 colour lithographs as sample prints on different papers. Approx. 26 x 20 cm to 32 x 25 cm. Loose leaf in modern cardboard cassette. (Paris 1896). See Hofstätter p. 44. Arwas S. 26. Ray, The Art of the French Book, 465. – Collection of sample prints for the series of the famous Art Nouveau illustrations for a calendar by the Swiss-French sculptor, painter and illustrator Eugène Samuel Grasset (1845-1917), who played a major role in the Belle Époque. The following are available: Janvier (2 specimens, on grey, large Vélin and yellow cardboard), Février (2 copies, on gray, big Véline and yellow carton), Mars (2 copies , on thin, small Vélín, on solid, large Velin), May (4 copies, large, blue Vélen, on small, delicate grey and large grey Véling), Juin (1 copy, on clay carton) Juillet (3 copies, 2 on paper, 1 on paper), yellowish Japan box), Août (3 specimens, 2 in thin Vélin, 1 in clay box), Septembre (1 copy on hard paper), Octobre (3 copies; 2 on thin Velin, 1, on rolled Japan), Novembre (1 sample, on ink box), Décembre (1 specimen, on soft Véline). – Pretty prints in front of the printed Writing, in different colour depth and on different types of paper, certainly made by the artist himself. – -