DYL (Yan-Bernard). La Petite ville. Paris : Simon Kra, [1926]. - In-4, 290 x 192 : (24 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Paperback. Superb and rare album composed of 22 compositions by Yan-Bernard DYL (1887-1944), including one enhanced in gold on the cover, one in black on the title and 20 full-page color prints, reproduced by the Jacomet workshops and enhanced with stencils. Dyl was a painter, decorator and illustrator close to Robert Delaunay. He was one of the representatives of the Art Deco movement, author of several advertisements as well as covers and illustrations notably for the publisher Simon Kra, including this Petite ville published in 1926 which shows through 20 illustrations the life of a provincial village. This album is one of the masterpieces of this unjustly forgotten artist and one of the first books inspired by the cinema. Each composition is protected by a snake on which is printed a caption, or more precisely a piece of text which together form a sentence describing the village. Only 175 copies of the edition were printed. This one is one of 150 on vellum (n° 60), perfectly preserved.