The Virtue of Sapphire
All Resolutions
Whoever wears a sapphire will know no fear.
(Facing p. 112.)
Description:
A knight in armor and a rippling, patterned cloak leads his horse through a snow-covered mountain forest, while a band of brigands armed with axes and halberds waits in ambush behind rocky outcrops.
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: Qui porte le saphir n'aura peur.
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