116 - DYL, Yan B. and PILLET, Roger. *Les Oraisons amoureuses de Jeanne-Aurélie Grivolin, lyonnaise*.

DYL, Yan B. and PILLET, Roger. *Les Oraisons amoureuses de Jeanne-Aurélie Grivolin, lyonnaise*. A superb copy on Holland paper, enriched with a set of 15 drypoint engravings and illustrations in the text. A splendid Art Deco illustrated edition in a beautiful Samblanx binding adorned on the endpapers with two ink drawings. Paris, Éditions de “La Connaissance,” 1926. In-8, full green morocco, ribbed spine, gold fillet framing the panels, gilt title and date at the foot, gold fillet framing the covers, fine interior border of the same morocco, honey-colored morocco linings framed by a gold fillet and decorated in the center with an incised design, honey-colored moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, double gold fillet at the edges, guilloché headbands, gilt edges, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved. Binding signed Ch. de Samblanx. X and 213 pages, 15 color drypoint plates, 166 copper-engraved headpieces and tailpieces printed in bistre. Spine sun-faded, joints and raised bands rubbed, faint white marks on the covers. Edition illustrated by Yan Bernard Dyl (1887–1944) with 15 color drypoint engravings as inserts, enhanced with gouache and watercolor by Tabary, and copper-engraved ornaments printed in bistre. Limited edition of 500 copies; this is one of the 100 numbered copies printed on Holland van Gelder paper (No. 44). It is enhanced with a suite of drypoint engravings and a suite on Japanese paper featuring headbands and footers; all mounted within the body of the book. Two black-ink drawings on white cardboard (128 x 98 mm) have been very finely incised into the linings of the full leather binding by the Belgian Charles de Samblax (1855–1943). A fine copy.