COCTEAU (Jean). Théâtre. Paris: Grasset, [1957]. - 2 volumes in-8, 227 x 157: (2 ff.), 535 pp. (4 ff. last blank), 21 plates; (2 ff.), 642 pp. (3 ff.), 19 plates. Publisher's illustrated boards. Beautiful edition of Jean Cocteau's theatre, illustrated by the author with 15 black compositions on the header and 40 original lithographs in colour outside the text. One of the 8890 copies on Voiron laid paper from Navarre paper mills, this one enriched with two beautiful letters from the author in each of the volumes, addressed to his friend Daniel Lair : à Daniel Lair // avec // mon // salut // bien // amical // Jean // Cocteau // * // 1961 (tome 1) à mon. and madam // Daniel Lair // the // friendly // neighbour // Jean Cocteau // * 1961 (volume 2) Each dedication is accompanied by a drawing by Cocteau, representing a face in profile in the first volume and in front in the second . This copy is enriched with an original photograph of Cocteau by Richard De Grab, 226 x 178, with copyrigth and photographer's stamp on the back, an illustrated dedication by the author also to Daniel Lair, extracted from a book on Cocteau, and a thank-you card from the latter's family, after the writer's death. Cracking at the hinges and some soiling. The first plate of the second volume has been bound backwards. Small traces of folds to the photograph.