GUÉRIN (Maurice de). Le Centaure et la Bacchante. Prose poem - Lot 187

GUÉRIN (Maurice de). Le Centaure et la Bacchante. Prose poems. Preface by Louis BARTHOU. Paris, Le Livre Contemporain, 1931. In-4°, fawn box, broad geometric decoration of gilded fillets and black dotted lines decorating the boards, smooth spine decorated with the same, gilded edges on witnesses, linings inlaid with plates printed on gilded satin, havana velvet paper endpapers, embossed cover and spine preserved, fawn half-box flap folder, case (G. Cretté successor to Marius Michel). 49 woodcuts in color by Jules CHADEL. Edition of 121 copies on japon, this one (no. 93) printed for Jacques André. Enriched with SIX LARGE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS not used for illustration (two of which correspond to those printed on gilt satin); THREE TRIAL BOARDS, one of which signed by the artist in pencil; THREE L.A.S. from the artist to Jacques André, two of which are on the verso of trial boards; & the menu of May 24, 1932 illustrated with a signed woodcut in color. From the Jacques André library, with bookplate engraved by Laboureur. "One of Jules Chadel's best illustrations", (Carteret, Trésor, IV, 194). A fine copy in bindings by Georges CRETTÉ, with gilt satin prints on the boards.