Hors commerce copy printed for the artist Guirand de Scévola, with an additional 50 copies printed on Japon Imperial. Three original pastels by Scévola and one original gouache tipped in with mounts. 15 illustrations after Scévola coloured in pochoir, with each plate additionally reproduced in five states (noir, bistre, rouge, vert, bleu). 4to., 30 x 26cm, VIII, 336pp [4] [75 plates]. Full green goatskin gilt by René Aussourd, spine in five compartments with floral gilt borders, lettered in gilt, gilt ruled turn-ins with gilt leafsprays to corners and a strip of pink onlay, pink silk moire doublures and endpapers, with paste paper slipcase heightened with gold and edged in goatskin. Paris, Javal et Bourdeaux, 1928.
Good, spine faded, some foxing throughout, particularly to early leaves.
