MARTIN (Charles) - MÉRIMÉE (Prosper). Carmen. Paris : Éditions de la Roseraie, [1926]. - In-4, 248 x 188 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), XII pp., (2 ff.), 142 pp., (2 ff.), 5 plates, illustrated cover. Old rose box, boards and spine continuously decorated with a repeating pattern of gilt and cold wavy fillets forming lozenges in the center of which appears a pattern of gilt curled fillets, smooth spine, taupe suede linings and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, old rose box spine and flap folder, case (G. Cretté successor of Marius Michel). Charming and rare edition of only 176 copies, illustrated with forty-one compositions by Charles MARTIN (1884-1937), of which six in the black manner out of the text and thirty-five in the text engraved with etchings in colors on the mark. There is also a beautiful composition by Martin on the cover, in silver on a purple background. One of 150 copies on tinted vellum of Rives, enriched with a black suite of the illustrations. Superb copy bound by Georges Cretté. The suite includes an additional engraving which is not included in the book. A very well preserved copy.