Le Printemps. Une Frise á Colorier BelvèS, Pierre Children,Ephemera,Illustrated

First edition of this illustrated panorama of springtime, designed to be colored in watercolor or gouache. Featured images include a gardener pruning a tree, statues surrounded by spring blossoms, a farmer shearing a lamb, and laborers planting gardens and fields. Belvès was a career illustrator with Père Castor, the author of multiple books on art education, and a founder of Ateliers du Carrousel at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, which runs public arts workshops for students of all ages to this day. Text in French. A near-fine copy, never colored. Single sheet, measuring 9.5 x 8.25 inches folded, unfolding to 9.5 x 33 inches. Pictorial panels printed in black on recto and in midnight blue on verso. Occasional stray smudge, light rubbing to folds.