244 - [LEMARIÉ (Henry)]. PERRAULT (Charles). Sleeping Beauty. Paris, Jean Porson, 1948. In-8, 41 pp., [7] pp., with the publisher’s printed folders for the text and for each set of illustrations, all housed in the publisher’s printed slipcase.

[LEMARIÉ (Henry)]. PERRAULT (Charles). Sleeping Beauty. Paris, Jean Porson, 1948. In-8, 41 pp., [7] pp., with the publisher’s printed folders for the text and for each set of illustrations, all housed in the publisher’s printed slipcase. Limited edition of 2,000 copies on Rives vellum paper; this copy is one of 30 from the first print run, including two sets of pre-letter illustrations in black and in color, a breakdown of the 23 woodcuts for one plate, and 2 original drawings, one in black and white and the other in color. Edition illustrated by Henry Lemarié. André Marliat engraved the 800 woodcuts required, and Raymond Jacquet oversaw the printing. The work, begun in 1942 during the war, was completed in 1948. Included: CARRÉ (Léon, ill.), MICHAUT (Gustave). *Aucassin and Nicolette*. Paris, Piazza, 1929. Large 8vo, paperback, with illustrated plates. A 12th-century chant-fable. Experts: Loup Axmann and Jean-Luc Boisseau