The Mountain Dragon
All Resolutions
As for mountain dragons, they have gilded scales.
(Facing p. 32.)
Description:
A multicolored dragon hovers above a woman and her dogs, who stand on the bank of a churning mountain stream beside a dense pine tree.
Each plate in this volume was printed twice: once within the relevant passage, framed by an ornamental border, and once unbordered in a separate portfolio bound at the rear, a practice common to luxury editions of the period.
The caption reads in the original French: Quant aux dragons des montagnes, ils ont les écailles dorées.
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