172 - LALAU, Maurice, and PICCOLOMINI, Enea Silvio. *The Story of Two Lovers*. Latin manuscript from 1444, translated by Louis Gielly.

LALAU, Maurice, and PICCOLOMINI, Enea Silvio. *The Story of Two Lovers*. Latin manuscript from 1444, translated by Louis Gielly. A deluxe edition illustrated with 34 original color compositions enhanced with gold leaf. A copy printed in Madagascar, embellished with a beautiful original watercolor signed by the artist. Paris, Jules Meynial, 1931. Small folio (230 x 320 mm), loose-leaf, illustrated hardcover, in a cream-colored cardboard slipcase and jacket. XI and 121 pp., 30 color engravings in the text. Slight marks on the slipcase; faint foxing along the margins and on the back of the original watercolor. A deluxe edition of this famous epistolary novel tinged with courtly eroticism, written in Latin in 1444 by the future Pope Pius II and translated here by Louis Gielly. It is adorned with 30 delicate original color compositions by Maurice Lalau, meticulously engraved by the artist and gilded with gold leaf by Henriette Lalau. [Carteret, Illustrés, IV, 317] A unique edition of 113 numbered copies on Madagascar paper (no. 40). This copy is enhanced with a beautiful original color watercolor signed by Maurice Lalau (loose leaf, 140 x 200 mm, with light foxing on the back). From the library of Jean-Claude Chalanson, a passionate collector of illustrated books from the Art Deco period (bookplate on the inside front cover). A very fine copy, in excellent condition.