[SAUVAGE]. Albert SAMAIN. Tales. Xanthis. Divine Bontemps. H - Lot 297

[SAUVAGE]. Albert SAMAIN. Tales. Xanthis. Divine Bontemps. Hyalis. Rovère and Angisèle. Paris, Dans la rue Cassini, 1926. In-8, marbled green half-calf, bird-patterned paper boards, 2-nerved spine decorated with vertical gilt fillet with author's name and title in Chinese style, blue head, cover and spine (Creuzevault). Monod, II-10117 /// (3f.)-140-(3f.) 25 beautiful etching illustrations in color by Sylvain Sauvage, including cover, frontispiece, title vignette, 4 chapter-heads, 14 in the text and 4 full-page. Limited edition of 271 copies, this one of 180 on Arches laid paper (no. 154), with a proof of a bistre plate on Japon paper. One illustration discharged.