BELOT (Gabriel) - AUDOUX (Marguerite). Marie-Claire. S.l. The Eclectics of the Book, 1930 [1932]. - In-4, 283 x 214: (4 ff. 3 first blanks), 252 pp., (6 ff., 3 last blanks), illustrated cover. Jansenist fawn morocco, smooth back, edge-to-edge lining and endpapers of green morocco, golden head, untrimmed, cover and back preserved, case and shirt with back and stripes of fawn morocco, case for the suite (Marie-José Guian). Edition printed in 170 copies on Arches wove paper, constituting the second book published by the company "Les éclectiques du livre". It is illustrated with more than 200 original woodcuts engraved by the painter, engraver and illustrator Gabriel BELOT (1882-1962), 20 of which are full-page and one on the cover. One of the 20 copies numbered in Roman numerals, enriched in a separate case with one of the 40 suites of all the colour illustrations on vellum, numbered and signed by the artist on the first plate, and a colour breakdown of the full-page illustrations on the same paper. There is also a beautiful L.A.S. of the illustrator, with the header of the Société Artistique de la Gravure sur Bois, dated March 15, 1930, 1 page in-4, with an original drawing, addressed to a friend: "I have just been given Marie Claire to illustrate, all I have to do is sign to the "eclectics of the book". It will be landscapes engraved on wood, 20000 f, - but, but, a considerable number of engravings it is not yet that which will make me not rich but possible other things to do but, the way to ask more from a young society whose members pay 500 f per year! It's impossible and unless they find artists working without profit and for the love of their art they'll never have with this contribution what I call a big book - at least for me it's already a q.q. thing.... We'll try to make a big book! " Beautiful copy in triple binding by Marie-Josée Guian, made for her personal account . Minimal freckles on the f