VILLON (François) - [] - Les Escripts de Françoy Villon. Paris, Le Club du Livre, 1974. 2 vols. In-4, 273p. Bound in full morocco, boards richly decorated with cold-stamped motifs, in hardback folder and slipcase, illuminated and calligraphed by Guignard. Numerous in-text color drawings and beautiful color text frames. Limited edition of 4700 numbered copies. This one, n°DCXXV, is one of 400 on papèteries de Lana vellum in Roman numerals. Accompanied by a second volume in a folder and slipcase, including reproductions of old maps, reproductions of archival documents, reproduction of the map of Paris, 1552, reproduction of the danse macabre, reproductions of drawings and woodcuts, and the original study by Louis-Robert Plazolles, Villon en son temps (79 pages) Good condition.

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