279 - SAINT-PAUL, Albert, and SAINT-PAUL, Jean. *De la lumière effeuillée*. A Poem for a Festive Day.

SAINT-PAUL, Albert, and SAINT-PAUL, Jean. *De la lumière effeuillée*. A Poem for a Festive Day. A charming illustrated edition featuring 12 original woodcuts by Jean Saint-Paul, who has enriched it with a signed autograph dedication. Paris, J. Povolozky & Co. (“La Cible” art collection), 1923. Quarto, paperback, gray cloth-covered binding printed in brown, uncut. Unpaginated, with 12 original woodcuts as inserts, drawn and engraved by Jean Saint-Paul. Cover frayed, with missing sections on the spine; the front cover and white endpaper are beginning to detach (seams fragile). Second edition of this collection by Albert Saint-Paul (1861–1946), illustrated with 12 woodcut compositions drawn and engraved by his son Jean Saint-Paul (1897–1974). Albert Saint-Paul was a French Symbolist poet, a close friend of Stéphane Mallarmé, and one of the founders of the journal *L’Ermitage*. Limited edition of 300 copies on bouffant laid paper; this is no. 94. This copy is enhanced by a signed autograph dedication by the illustrator Jean Saint-Paul on a blank endpaper, dated December 1929: “To Anne-Marguerite Henry / ‘Countess of Laos’ / With deepest sympathy / Jean Saint-Paul.” Clean and fresh interior.