Ludovic HALEVY - The Cardinal Family From Auguste Blaizot, Paris, 1938 - Posthumous first edition of the only work Edgar Degas ever envisaged and prepared to illustrate entirely, the edition never saw the light of day, and it was Blaizot who subsequently recovered the illustrations and rights to bring this high-quality publication to light, with a foreword by Marcel Guérin. The edition is limited to 350 copies, all on Rives vellum paper, this one numbered. Paperback in good condition, with minor soiling and tears to the cover, the interior is in excellent condition and the paper is still quite white. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and 33 monotypes in black and color, the latter highlighting the talent Degas could have developed in illustration, and this unique testimony to his research in this discipline gives the work real interest. The monotypes drawn in 1880, which were to be reproduced in heliogravure, had displeased Ludovic Halévy; here, they are engraved on copper, which is indeed perfectly suited to illustration and represents a real bookish success. Large in-4, (1) 161pp. (1).