Albert SAMAIN. Hyalis, Le Petit faune aux yeux bleus. Paris, - Lot 76

Albert SAMAIN. Hyalis, Le Petit faune aux yeux bleus. Paris, Ferroud, 1918. In-4, duck-blue morocco, wide right-hand framing on the boards with fillets, special motifs and small diamond-shaped pieces of red morocco, 5-rib spine decorated with the same, interior framing, lining and brocaded silk endpapers with floral motifs, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine, case (Joly fils). Monod, II, 10119 /// (2f.)-59-(1f.). Fine edition illustrated with color woodcuts in the text by G. Ad. Mossa, including the front cover, false-title, frontispiece, title, 6 chapter-heads, 6 full pages, 36 lettrines, some repeated, and 6 culs-de-lampe. Edition of 1,020 copies, this one of the top 25 on Japon Impérial containing an original watercolor and 3 states of the plates, in black on old Japon, in color with remarks and in the text (no. 6). A very fine copy.