78 - SOUVESTRE (Émile) - *Le Foyer Breton*. Folk Tales and Stories - Paris; Société des Amis du Livre Moderne, 1910 - 1 volume, In-4° - 78 etchings, both as inserts and in the text, by André Dauchez: title vignette, 25 inserts featuring serpents with captions, and 50 in the text - Very fine period binding in pine-green morocco signed by Charles Meunier, with rich polychrome mosaic decoration - Covers (the front cover featuring an etching) and spine preserved - Double gilt fillet interspersed with a single black fillet framing the covers - Gold-thread edging and a wide mosaic floral frieze on the endpapers; endpapers lined with silk featuring an ornamental pattern in green, black, and red - Spine (restored) with gold-lettered raised bands and adorned with black and gold fillets, with gold dots along the raised bands - Gilded edges on endpapers - Edged slipcase - A very fine numbered copy on tinted vellum (No. 141 of the 10 copies reserved for the book’s collaborating artists; total print run: 150) - A significant collection of tales first published in 1844 and regularly reprinted. The artist has perfectly immersed himself in these tales, which abound with fairies and witches, where the strange vies with the marvelous in a poor and rugged Breton landscape with coasts battered by powerful waves. A landscape and seascape painter and etcher, André Dauchez (1870–1948), who was self-taught, worked exclusively from life. He made his debut in 1894 at the Salon of the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, which he presided over from 1932 to 1937, and later founded the Salon national indépendant. He won a silver medal at the 1900 World’s Fair.