153 - ROY (Camille). Songs for Everyone. Songs and Poems Illustrated by His Friends. Lyon, A.-H. Stock, 1897. A large folio volume, full brown morocco leather, ribbed spine, red morocco title label, extensive mosaic and painted decoration on the front cover depicting a lyre player in front of a gilded musical staff, with mosaic notes; on the back cover, a large oval medallion, painted and inlaid, depicting a soldier before a landscape of ruins, framed by a double gilt border; gilt interior lace, brown moiré endpapers and half-leaves, all edges gilt. Burgundy morocco leather slipcase with two brass clasps (binding signed Marius MAGNIN, 1918). 255 pp.

ROY (Camille). Songs for Everyone. Songs and Poems Illustrated by His Friends. Lyon, A.-H. Stock, 1897. A large folio volume, full brown morocco leather, ribbed spine, red morocco title label, extensive mosaic and painted decoration on the front cover depicting a lyre player in front of a gilded musical staff, with mosaic notes; on the back cover, a large oval medallion, painted and inlaid, depicting a soldier before a landscape of ruins, framed by a double gilt border; gilt interior lace, brown moiré endpapers and half-leaves, all edges gilt. Burgundy morocco leather slipcase with two brass clasps (binding signed Marius MAGNIN, 1918). 255 pp. Illustrated edition featuring 92 separate heliogravure plates, with scrollwork borders, and several vignettes within the text, based on works by Adolphe Appian, Joanny Arlin, Charles Beauverie, Henri Bidauld, Louis Boulanger, Victor Ducrot, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Flandrin, Horace Fonville, Eugène Froment, Louis Jourdan, Sophie Olivier, Ernest Roman, Tony Tollet, and Joseph Trévoux. Limited edition of 750 copies; this one is no. 483, signed by Camille Roy, with an autographed dedication to François Borgey, dated December 1907. This copy is enhanced with two drawings by Girrane that served as models for the book’s binding decoration, as well as an old photograph of the binding. Marius Magnin also inserted a leaf bearing the inscription: “Mosaic binding executed for François Borgey, completed on March 31, 1918, by Marius MAGNIN.”