The Descent of Ishtar.

12mo (foxing on last leaf).

Publisher's binding: half grey paper, patterned paper with green daisies on covers, red lettered label on front cover, flat spine (flyleaves partly browned). Uncut copy.

Second work printed in "Brook type" decorated with small ornaments. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Diana White, double borders on pp. 7-8 and initials by Lucien Pissarro, all wood-engraved by his wife Esther Pissarro. Eragny's mark at colophon. Edition limited to 226 unnumbered copies on Arches hand-made paper, of which 200 were for sale. Printed in black, green and red. The British artist and translator White (1868-1950) became friends with Esther when they were both studying at the Crystal Palace School of Art. She met Lucien through Esther.
Ref. Ransom, Eragny Press, 17. - The gentle art of Pissarro, 28. - Tomkinson, Eragny Press, 18.
Exhibition Le livre au féminin. Société royale des Bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique. Brussels, KBR, 1997, p. 45, n. 60.