FARGEOT (Ferdinand) - MAUROIS (André). Ariel or Shelley's life. Paris: Éditions Mornay, 1932. - In-8, 202 x 150: frontispiece, (5 ff. first blank), 327 pp., (4 ff. last 3 blanks), illustrated cover. Garnet box, large rectangle of burgundy box slightly sunken on the dishes, decorated with 7 white leafprints, title repeated twice in large cold stylized letters, arranged in an inverted L on the first dish, smooth back decorated with a black morocco title piece, burgundy box listel framed inside, grey moiré silk linings and endpapers, golden head, untrimmed, cover and back preserved, shirt with back and garnet box cover strips, case (Marie-Josée Guian - D.-H. Mercher). Illustrated edition of 63 colour compositions and ornaments, the majority in text, by the painter, pastelist and illustrator Ferdinand FARGEOT (1880-1957). This is the 61st book in the "Les Beaux livres" collection published by Mornay. One of the 852 numbered copies on Rives vellum, this one exceptionally enriched separately, and under a special cover, with a series of illustrations in black on japanese. Very nice copy, bound by Marie-José Guian and Daniel-Henri Mercher. The suite was placed in an individual shirt with a garnet box back . Perfectly preserved copy.