Grasset, Eugène. Les mois. Douze compositions. Gravées sur bois & imprimées en chromotypography. 1 mont. Cover page. With a sequence of 12 colors. Orig. woodcuts as well as 1 more mont. Suite of woodcuts in chromolithography. 33 x 25 cm half-line d. Z. with golden gepr. RSchild; O Envelope included. Paris, G. de Malherbe (1895). Garvey/Wick 50. See Alexandre p. 9-11 (fig.). – 12 beautiful copies of the monthly pictures in front of the writing (with the color. Follow the month names already printed). A highlight in Grasset's book illustration, followed by the mont. Calendar sheets, "Offert par la Belle Jardinière" (so the text sheet in front of the calendar sheets, here attached to the beginning with the title, which served as an envelope). Put all Bl. on Falze. These famous Art Nouveau-Graphics were created in 1895 for an advertising calendar of the Parisian confectionery La Belle Jardinière, which then appeared in two variants in 1896, once with the monthly names and once with company and advertising prints. "This series of decorative calendar pages is a lady's book à la mode with comely maids dressed in 'aesthetic' free-flowing costumes happily tending their well-ordered, full-flowering gardens. These garden settings are a foil for his sense of formalized surface patterns, showing the influence of Walter Crane" (Garvey/W.). – Die mont. Calendar sheets doubly perforated at the top; occasionally minimally spotted; overall beautiful specimen of this charming praise of the gardener.