PISSARRO (Camille).

Autograph letter signed to his wife Julie, dated Paris 22 May [18]91, 3 pages in-8 (208 x 135 mm) on letterhead of the Hotel Terminus, in modern blue half-maroquin folder. Apparently unpublished letter about the project of a book illustrated by his son Lucien Pissarro for Paul Gallimard, collector and bibliophile, father of the famous publisher. I went to Mr. Gallimard with Lucien's engravings. This gentleman found Lucien's works very beautiful, he asked me to ask Lucien what price he could provide woodcuts in color so that he could judge the possibility of a publication [...] I let him have the collection to show it to rare books lovers [...] Tell Georges that this gentleman would like to see woodcuts in color to put on book covers. George [sic] could make an ornamental or other subject of the size of a volume, the wood not too thick, as a test, I spoke about it to Mr. Gallimard. This letter does not appear in the correspondence of Camille Pissarro published by Jeannine Bailly-Herzberg, Paris, 1989.