ELSKAMP Max (1862-1931). The Alphabet of Our Lady the Virgin. Antwerp, Édition du conservatoire de la Tradition populaire, [1901]; small Japanese-style paperback, 4 pages, colour illustrated cover, celadon morocco spine folder, gilt fleurons, slipcase. First edition of this entirely xylographic work, each page framed in pink and blue, with figures (mannekensblaren) on the right and captions on the left. According to Charles Van Lerberghe (quoted by Sadeleer), it is "an ingenuous and yet so profound alphabet of thought, this book that one reads in a beautiful instant (...), the poem par excellence that so many of us have thought about..." ☞ One of 10 copies printed on Chine after 5 Japon (No. 13). 📖 Pascal de Sadeleer, Max Elskamp, catalogue raisonné, no. 24.