*DESVALLIÈRES (Georges) - LAVEDAN (Henri). Monsieur Vincent aumonier des galères. Paris: Société des Amis du Livre moderne, 1934. - In-4, 300 x 228: (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 318 pp. (5 ff. last blank), printed cover. Dark blue morocco, large cross made of gilt and cold filets on the boards, the one on the first plate covering circles of gilt filets and dots, smooth spine, large dark blue morocco frame inside, decorated with a gilt fillet, blue moiré silk lining and endpapers, double guards, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved, case (G. Cretté successor of Marius Michel). Edition printed at 160 copies on Arches vellum, illustrated with 98 compositions by the painter Georges DESVALLIÈRES (1861-1950), reproduced in facsimile and colored with stencil, including one in the frontispiece, 13 full-page and 84 in the text. A copy specially printed for Charles Miguet, very well bound by Cretté and enriched with the following items: - a suite of illustrations in black or blue, - proofs of two illustrations, two of which are annotated in pencil, - a facsimile of an autograph of Saint-Vincent de Paul, - 9 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY DESVALLIÈRES USED IN THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE BOOK, all but one signed by the artist with his name or initials . The unsigned drawing has an autograph caption. Made in gouache, pen and watercolor, they are all mounted under a passe-partout, - menu of the dinner of February 28, 1935, given by the Society of the Friends of the Modern Book on the occasion of the release of the book . Desvallières was a renowned painter. A friend of Maurice Denis, he succeeded Georges Rouault as curator of the Gustave Moreau Museum before being elected a member of the Institut de France in May 1930 to replace René Ménard. Some of his works are now on display at the Musée d'Orsay and the Petit Palais devoted an exhibition to him in 2016. Past back.