[COLLECTIVE]. San Lazzaro and his friends. A tribute to the founder of the XXe siècle magazine. Paris : XXe siècle, [1975]. - In-4, 355 x 265: 141 pp, (3 ff. last blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's slipcase decorated on the lining with a photographic portrait of Lazzaro. First edition of this tribute to the creator of the art magazine XXe siècle, composed by his friends and collaborators among whom Marc Chagall, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Alain Jouffroy, Jean Cassou, Marino Marini, Yvon Taillandier, Henry Moore, etc. The edition is illustrated with 15 full-page color lithographs, including 9 originals by Max BILL, Alexander CALDER, Marc CHAGALL, Max ERNST, Hans HARTUNG, Joan MIRÓ, Henry MOORE, Graham SUTHERLAND and Zao WOU-KI, and 6 second editions by Georges BRAQUE, Lucio FONTANA, Alberto MAGNELLI, René MAGRITTE, Pablo PICASSO and Serge POLIAKOFF. There is also a reproduction of a photographic portrait of San Lazzaro on the first lining of the slipcase. Edition at 630 copies on Arches vellum paper, this one being one of the 55 reserved for artists, authors, friends and collaborators of XXe siècle, specially printed for the engraver Charles Sorlier (1921-1990). The latter had started in Fernand Mourlot's workshop in 1948 where he stayed for more than 40 years. He worked on the works of Picasso, Matisse or Fernand Léger, but especially on those of Marc Chagall with whom he had become friends. A very well preserved copy despite some transfers of the lithographs on the facing leaves.