LOBEL-RICHE (Alméry) - COLETTE. Chéri. Paris : H. Blanchetière, [1925]. - In-8, 250 x 188 : 201 pp. and 1 f., printed cover. Dark green jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, framed in dark green morocco inside, decorated with gilt fillets and gilt and mosaic flowers at the corners, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Ch. Septier). Edition printed at 275 copies, illustrated with floral ornaments and lettering by Aimé JOURDE and twenty-one drypoints by Alméry LOBEL-RICHE (1877-1950), eleven of which in the text and ten on full page. ONE OF THE FORTY COPIES ON JAPANESE IMPERIAL PAPER, second paper after twenty copies on old japon, enriched with an original drawing signed by the artist, a suite in first state of the drypoints, a suite in second state with remarks and three plates refused in first state. The proofs of the suites are also on imperial paper of Japan. The drawing in this copy is a sketch for an illustration that was not retained. It bears a signed autograph from the artist to Robert Beauvillain: "to Mr. Robert Beauvillain // with the sympathy of the painter-engraver // Lobel Riche" Superb copy bound by Charles Septier, complete with the covers of the suites and enriched with a woodcut portrait of Colette printed in bistre on japon . Provenance: Robert Beauvillain, with ex-libris and autograph dispatch of the artist (cat. 20 March 2020, n° 143).