283 - DIDEROT. LELONG.

DIDEROT. LELONG. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master. Paris, Javal and Bourdeaux, 1928. Small quarto (24 x 18 cm), (4) folios, including 1 blank folio, 302-(1) pp., (2) folios, including 1 blank folio. Contemporary Lavallière morocco leather binding, spine with 4 raised bands, author, title, and date in gold, mosaic decoration in panels on the covers, including a portrait in a medallion on the top cover; inside covers adorned with an inner frame consisting of a green morocco leather band, accented with gilt fillets, dots, and ironwork, with mosaic foliage in the spandrels; moiré silk lining on the endpapers and half-titles; gilt edges; cover and spine preserved; in a marbled slipcase. [Vermorel] (spine slightly faded, slipcase slightly scuffed). Description: A fine copy. Illustrated with 18th-century-style copper engravings by Raoul Serres, based on compositions by Lelong and printed in spot colors. Limited edition of 490 copies. This one is no. 261, one of 300 printed on tinted Arches vellum. In a charming patterned binding by Vermorel.