ROCHEGROSSE (Georges) - GAUTIER (Théophile). The Mummy Novel. Paris: F. Ferroud, 1920. - In-8, 256 x 185: frontispiece, (4 ff.), 218 pp., (2 ff.), 18 plates, illustrated cover. Brown morocco, dishes decorated with a frame made of golden fillets, mosaic stripes of blue and brown morocco and lotus flower motifs of green morocco on a black morocco background, winged beetle mosaic of brown, green and blue morocco on a dark blue morocco circle decorated with golden dots and stars in the centre on the first dish, ribbed back decorated with mosaic motifs, brown morocco frame inside, decorated with a strip of blue morocco between two gold fillets and a square of blue morocco decorated with a green morocco flower and brown dots at the corners, blue morocco lining, brick silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and back preserved, case (Noulhac 1923). Beautiful edition of 1225 copies, illustrated with more than 120 compositions by Georges ROCHEGROSSE (1859-1938), including 21 etchings engraved by Eugène Decisy, including a frontispiece, 2 figures in the text and 18 off-texts, as well as more than 100 coloured woodcuts on the cover and in the text. One of the first 30 copies on large imperial japan, containing 4 etchings states (in doll's color before the letter with remark on vellum, pure etchings with remark, before the letter with remark and with the letter, all 3 on japan), and 2 woodcuts suites in color on japan and in black on china. Precious copy in mosaic binding and lined of the period made by Noulhac after a model by Madame Noulhac, enriched with an original watercolour signed by Rochegrosse. Perfectly preserved copy . Provenance: Aimé Laurent, with ex-libris.