LEPAPE (Georges). Sets and costumes for The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck. With a preface by Gérard d'Houville. Paris: Société d'Édition "Le Livre", 1927. - In-8, 240 x 165 : (2 ff.), X pp., (2 ff.), 61 plates, illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Superb album of 61 plates coloured with stencil and enhanced with gold and silver by J. Saudé. These plates represent the sets and costumes that Georges Lepape designed at the request of Cora Laparcerie, for the performances of Maeterlinck's L'Oiseau bleu at the Mogador theater. The first seven plates, showing the different sets, are on double page. There is a preface by Gérard d'Houville. Edition at only 230 copies, this is one of the 200 on Arches vellum (n° 210). Precious copy enriched with two pages of sketches with some autograph lines by Georges Lepape, which are studies for characters of the play, including the wolf (plate 46), and the bull (plate 50). There are also two original unsigned pencil studies by Georges Lepape, enhanced with gouache and watercolour, for the first set of the play. An autograph card signed by the actor and director Pierre Dux (1908-1990), on the letterhead of the "Comédie Française. General Administrator", addressed to Jacques Crépineau, undated (circa 1970), 2 pages in-18. Envelope enclosed. Jacques Crépineau sent him sketches and models: "I have found nothing in them that gives a fundamentally different idea of the style - or let's say of the bias - of the creation, and that suggests something really new. Now Chantecler in 1974 - because it is not possible to envisage it before - should present itself under a completely new decorative aspect."He concludes by asking Jacques Crépineau to express his great admiration for Claude Lepape and his father Georges, "whose few works I know I have infinitely enjoyed, and with whom I would like to have a chat sometime". Attached to this card are two reproductions of costumes from Rostand's Chantecler from 1910 .