GLEIZES (Albert) - METZINGER (Jean). Cubism. Paris: Compagnie française des arts graphiques, 1947. - In-8, 258 x 202: 79 pp., (4 ff.), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's folder, without the case. Second partly original edition of this text, originally published in 1912 and which was at the time the first critical study devoted to cubism. It has here been revised and greatly expanded by its authors. Only 455 copies of the edition were printed, illustrated with 11 full-page engravings, 7 of which were original by Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Marie Laurencin, Jean Metzinger, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso and Jacques Villon, and 4 by Georges Braque, André Derain, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger. Copy on pure Lana thread paper, unnumbered. Burnished cover, a few scattered freckles as often, traces of clear discharges on the title page and on the following page, under Picasso's engraving. The folder is damaged and the case is missing.