EDELMANN (Charles Auguste) - CHÉRAU (Gaston). Valentine Pacquault. Paris: Éditions Mornay, 1927. - In-8, 198 x 150: frontispiece, (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 490 pp., (3 ff. last blank), 1 plate, illustrated cover. Purple morocco, with plates and backs decorated with mosaic hearts of green, orange, pink, ochre, havana and beige morocco, and on the first plate an engraving of a soldier in a sentry box with oblique multicoloured stripes, covered with transparent plastic, smooth back, fawn morocco lining, blue suede guards, golden head, untrimmed, cover and back preserved, shirt with purple morocco overlapping bands, case (Marie-José Guian - D. H. Mercher). First illustrated edition, forming the 40th book of the collection "Les Beaux livres", printed in 1065 copies. It is illustrated with 98 colour compositions by Charles Auguste EDELMANN (1879-1950) including 2 etchings out of text and 96 compositions in text coloured with stencil. One of the 935 copies on Rives, this one is exceptionally enriched with a series of illustrations in black on china. Very nice copy, bound by Marie-José Guian and Daniel-Henri Mercher . Perfectly preserved copy.