LAURENCIN (Marie) - LACRETELLE (Jacques de). Spanish letters. Paris: Société d'édition " Le Livre ", Émile Chamontin, 1926. - In-8, 240 x 171: (4 ff.), II, 181 pp., (1 ff.), printed cover. Beige box, shell cameo representing Flora, mounted on gilt metal and glued on the first course, smooth back, golden head, untrimmed, cover and back preserved, back and corners of beige box (M. J. Guian-Milliaud). Original edition illustrated with 11 original etchings by Marie LAURENCIN (1883-1956), including a frontispiece, 9 chapter headings and a cul-de-lampe. Edition of 325 copies. One of the first 25 on japan of the imperial manufactures, containing 3 suites of etchings including a first state on imperial japan, a final state on Holland Van Gelder Zonen, and a suite of barred plates on old japan in the form. Very beautiful copy bound by Marie-Josée Guian for her personal account, who placed on the first plate a late 19th century shell cameo representing the portrait of de Flore.