Three skin and vegetable cases

QUEVEDO (Francisco de): Pablo de Segovia. El Gran Tacano. Translated by J.-H. Rosny. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty drawings by Daniel VIERGE, (...) Étude sur Daniel Vierge, by Roger-Marx. Definitive edition. Paris, Pelletan & Daniel Vierge, 1902. 24.5 by 31.5 cm. XII-231 pages, followed by Suite de quatre aquarelles originales inédites de Daniel Vierge, gravées à l'eau forte par G. Noyon. Full Lavallière morocco, 4 ribbed spine with mosaic boxes of blond listel, and a stylized motif. Double-framed boards in blond listel, same stylized motif in spandrels, cold-stamped filleted edges and headpieces. Rich bronze-green morocco linings, decorated with a lavaliered morocco listel and a wide garland of blackcurrant fruit bunches with their leaves, in black and ivy-green morocco, set with gilded fillets, old gold brocaded silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges, covers preserved. Bordered slipcase. Binding signed Marius MICHEL. Spine very slightly faded, not serious. Small stains on front cover, not serious either. Case paper rubbed. Illustrated with 120 superb original compositions by Daniel Vierge. They are here in double condition, including a suite on Chine paper, integrated into the book. Numbered edition limited to 455 copies. One of 40 of the first edition on Japon des Manufactures Impériales (N°3). It is enriched with a very fine original signed watercolor, unpublished, in the format of the book, a suite on Chine of all the compositions, and 4 unpublished original watercolors, etched by G. Noyon, in 6 states (3 on Japon, three on chine, before and after the letter, with or without remarks), bound at the end of the volume. Signed by Daniel VIERGE, the book's illustrator and publisher. Engraved bookplate on skin: "R. Descamps-Scrive". An exceptional copy, in a perfectly executed binding by Marius Michel. For collectors.