208 - Malassis. – H. de Balzac. *Les Joyeuzetés du Roy Loys le Unziesme*. A humorous tale. Paris, Conard, 1907. Large 8vo. 30 leaves and endpapers, with numerous color copperplate engravings by Edmond Malassis (1874–1944). One of 20 (out of a total of 170) numbered copies of the special edition in a signed master’s binding by René Kieffer.

Malassis. – H. de Balzac. *Les Joyeuzetés du Roy Loys le Unziesme*. A humorous tale. Paris, Conard, 1907. Large 8vo. 30 leaves and endpapers, with numerous color copperplate engravings by Edmond Malassis (1874–1944). One of 20 (out of a total of 170) numbered copies of the special edition in a signed master’s binding by René Kieffer. As a special edition on Japanese paper, it includes two additional sheets of illustrations with detailed marginal motifs in color woodcuts, as well as a decomposition of a color illustration based on three plates and a proof with handwritten correction instructions by the artist. Publisher’s imprint signed. – Edmond Malassis, a student of Gustave Moreau, illustrated numerous prominent works of French literature, often with an emphasis on erotic themes. – A copy in excellent condition, with gold edging. The signed binding is in black morocco with an embossed central medallion on both covers, framed by accentuated corner fillets, ornamental spine motifs between bands, and a mirror with gilded decorated with a scoring tool and dot pattern; original brochure bound in, plus a René Kieffer label. – Bibliography: Charteret IV, 54. Mahé I, 116. Monod 848.