LAMBERT (André) - APULÉE. Love and Psyche. Paris: à la Tradition, 1939. - In-4, 287 x 203: (6 ff. first 3 blanks), 5 pp., (1 ff.), 92 pp., (2 ff.), pp. a to h, (2 ff.), XLI pp., (3 ff. last blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, folder and publisher's case. Beautiful fully engraved edition, printed in 372 copies, illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 colour compositions in the text, engraved in etching by the Swiss engraver and illustrator André LAMBERT (1884-1967). One of the first 21 copies on imperial japanese in form, this one of the 17 enriched with 3 suites of illustrations (in line on japan, in black with a remark on japan, "in their two colour plates joined together" on Arches vellum), an original watercolour by the artist and 2 brass instruments, the first one of an illustration and the second one of a page of text. Perfectly preserved copy.