CAYLUS (Marthe-Marguerite Le Valois de Villette de Murçay, countess of). Memories of Madame de Caylus. Preface by Voltaire . Notice from Mr. de Lescure. Paris: L. Carteret, 1908. - In-8, 208 x 137: portrait, (2 ff.), XXXX, 264 pp., 4 plates, illustrated cover. Dark green morocco, dishes decorated with a gilt frame composed of a net and a scroll decorated with flowers at the corners, ribbed back decorated with golden flowers, beige box linings and guards decorated with a rich decoration of golden flowers and mosaics, double guards, gilt edges, cover and back preserved (P. Ribbon 1908). New edition of 350 copies, illustrated with a portrait of Madame de Caylus in frontispiece, 4 chapter headings, 4 culs-de-lampe and 4 plates, engraved with chisel and etching by Léon Boisson after Lionel Péraux's compositions . Copy on Marais vellum, including 3 states of the engravings (pure etching with remark, before the letter with remark and final state ). Precious copy of the bookbinder Pétrus Ruban, superbly bound by him the same year the book was published . Back and edges of dishes passed. Provenance: Petrus Ribbon, with gold bookplate at the bottom of the first lining.