320 - GUÉRIN (Maurice de).

GUÉRIN (Maurice de). The Centaur and the Bacchante. Prose Poems. Preface by Louis Barthou. Paris: Le Livre Contemporain, 1931. In-4°, fawn box, with a broad geometric design of gold fillets and black dots adorning the covers; smooth spine decorated with the same motif; edges gilt on endpapers; linings inlaid with plates printed on gold-colored satin; havana velvet endpapers; embossed cover and spine preserved; half-fauve box-style slipcase with flaps, case (G. Cretté, successor to Marius Michel). 49 color woodcuts by Jules CHADEL. Printed in an edition of 121 copies on Japanese paper; this copy (no. 93) was printed for Jacques André. Copy enriched with SIX LARGE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS not used for illustration (though two correspond to those printed on gold-leaf satin); THREE PROOF PLATES, one of which is signed by the artist in pencil; THREE HANDWRITTEN LETTERS from the artist to Jacques André, two of which are on the reverse of proof sheets; and the menu from May 24, 1932, illustrated with a signed color woodcut. From the Jacques André library, with an ex-libris engraved by Laboureur. “One of Jules Chadel’s finest illustrations,” (Carteret, Trésor, IV, 194). A BEAUTIFUL COPY IN A BINDING BY GEORGES CRETTÉ, WITH COVERS DECORATED WITH PRINTS ON GOLD-LEAFED SATIN.