BAKST, L. The designs for the Sleeping Princess. A Ballet in Five Acts after Perrault. Preface by A. Levinson. Lond., Benn Brothers, 1923. 18 pp. W. portrait of Bakst after Picasso, plates on title-p. & content-p. & 54 full-p. cold. plates (1 fold.). Fol. Or. h. vellum w. blue cl. sides & gilt lettering on spine, deckle edges, t.e.g. (Some wear to extremities, slight waterstains to some of the upper margins).
Reproduces Bakst's costume and set designs for the 1921 London production of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, the designer's final collaboration with Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. - N° 143 of the lim. & numb. ed. of 1000.€ 700