DARAGNÈS (Jean-Gabriel) - FLAUBERT (Gustave). The Temptation of St. Anthony. With an introduction by Paul Valéry. Paris: at the artist's home, 1942. - In-4, 307 x 227: XXIV pp., (2 ff.), 221 pp., (1 ff.), illustrated cover. Brown morocco, flat decorated with a wide composition of concentric circles made of pieces of havana, brown, beige and fawn morocco, around a small central cross in garnet morocco, golden fillets radiating from the four cardinal points, smooth back, framed with brown morocco on the inside, ornamented with a cold and golden fillet and a mosaic diamond of fawn morocco at the corners, lining and endpapers of brown suede, golden edges on witnesses, cover and back preserved, back shirt and bands with brown morocco overlap, case (Semet & Plumelle). Beautiful edition printed and illustrated by Jean-Gabriel DARAGNÈS (1886-1950), including 24 original woodwinds in colour, one in frontispiece and 9 full-page, as well as a bistre composition on the cover. Edition at 1480 copies on Rives wove paper. This is one of the first 30 enriched with a series of colour engravings and an original drawing by the artist used for the illustration. Superb copy in mosaic binding of Semet et Plumelle, enriched with a second drawing by Daragnès.