[LALIQUE] / ROSTAND (Edmond) Chantecler. Play in four acts, in verse, first performed at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, February 7, 1910. Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1910. 1 vol. large in-8°, half havane grosgrain morocco, ribbed spine with gilt title, cold-stamped fillets on boards, gilt head. Bound by Bonleu. Preserved cover printed in relief after a composition by René Lalique, false title illustrated at the head with a drawing by Edmond Rostand, (4) ff. 244 pp. (1) f. First edition, printed in an edition of 1000 copies on Japanese imperial paper (n°443). Handsome autograph letter from the author to René Barth, including a self-citation of four famous lines from Chantecler (act II, scene III): "Je pense à la lumière et non pas à la gloire. Singing is my way of fighting and believing; And if of all songs my song is the proudest, It's because I sing clear so that it's clear!" A fine copy.