MARTIN (Charles) - RÉGNIER (Henri de). Venetian tales with an unpublished preface by the author. Paris: "Le Livre" publishing company, Émile Chamontin, 1927. - In-8, 233 x 160: (2 ff.), IX, 241 pp., (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Blue box, dishes decorated with two Venetian gondola sterns, one cold, the other in wood leaf, smooth back decorated with a pink morocco oval title piece, blue moiré silk lining bordered by a black box listel, blue moiré silk endpapers, gold edges on witnesses, cover and back preserved, blue box cover shirt and blue box cover stripes, case (Marie José Guian - D.-H. Mercher). Beautiful edition of 530 copies, illustrated with 22 compositions by Charles MARTIN (1884-1937), including 13 watercolours stenciled by J. Saudé, one on the cover and 12 in the text, and 9 bistre culs-de-lampe . One of the 30 copies on vellum of Holland van Gelder Zonen, enriched with a suite of the 12 watercolours in the text on Japan of the imperial manufactures . Very nice copy bound by Marie Josée Guian and Daniel-Henri Mercher.