[FOUQUERAY]. Paul CHACK. On se bat sur mer. Paris, Éditions - Lot 171

[FOUQUERAY]. Paul CHACK. On se bat sur mer. Paris, Éditions de France, 1930. Large in-4, midnight-blue morocco, boards decorated with a large mosaic decoration passing over the spine depicting a fighting ship, interior framing with gilt fillet, midnight-blue silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine, midnight-blue half-maroquin cover folder (Franz). Monod, I-2477 /// (2f.)-315-(1f.). 87 black copper engravings by Charles Fouqueray, including cover, frontispiece, title, 24 full pages and 60 in the text. Limited edition of 220 copies, this one of 34 on japon impérial (no. 35) containing a black state with remarks and a suite of all plates. A superb copy with a large, beautiful original watercolor depicting a collision. Missing slipcase.