FOUQUERAY (Charles) - FARRÈRE (Claude). The Battle. Paris : Auguste Blaizot, 1925. - In-4, 272 x 218 : (5 ff.), 273 pp, (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Dark green morocco, gilt fillets on the boards, criss-crossed at the corners, ornamented spine, red morocco lining decorated with gilt fillets and gilt and mosaic motifs at the corners taking up the symbol of the sun drawn on the cover, dark green moiré silk endpapers, double guards, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (Charles de Samblanx) Superb edition printed at 350 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, remarkably illustrated with one hundred and nine compositions by Charles FOUQUERAY (1869-1956) including one on the cover, one on the title, eighty-six in the text and twenty-one full page. One of the first fifty copies with a suite of illustrations on Arches vellum. A superb copy in a lined binding by Charles de Samblanx. Spine faded, small rubs from use. Some scattered foxing. Provenance : Georges Humbert, with ex-libris.