LAURENS (Henri) - LUCIEN DE SAMOSATE. Loukios or the donkey. Paris: Tériade, 1947. - In-4, 290 x 209: (4 ff. 3 first blanks), 88 pp., (4 ff.), illustrated cover. Black morocco, top cover decorated with a donkey's head drawn with white and gold fillets, edged with vertical cold fillets, repeating the illustration on the cover, smooth spine, lining and endpapers gilded, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, spine folder and overlapping bands of black morocco, lined with grey suede, case (Marie-Josée Guian - L. and C. Berthaux gilder). Beautiful illustrated edition of 68 original compositions by the sculptor and engraver Henri LAURENS (1885-1954), including one on the cover, 43 in the text and 24 full-page, woodcut and partly enhanced with gold. The text, printed by Pierre Bouchet, is decorated with line ends composed by the artist and printed in gold. Edition of 270 copies on pure Arches vellum, signed by the artist. One of the first 40 copies including a suite of illustrations (No. 14), here on japan and not on china as indicated in the justification. Very nice copy, perfectly bound.