NOEL (Pierre) - FARRÈRE (Claude). Thomas l'Agnelet Gentleman of fortune. Paris : Éditions Mornay, 1928. - In-8, 199 x 151 : (4 ff. first blank), 453 pp., (2 ff.), illustrated cover. Jansenist red morocco, spine ribbed, red morocco framed inside, decorated with a gilt fillet, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (Trinckvel). Edition illustrated with seventy compositions by Pierre NOËL, of which eight full page, colored with stencil. It is the forty-third book of the collection "Les Beaux livres". Edition at 1068 copies. ONE OF SIXTY ON IMPERIAL JAPON, this one being one of the eight hors commerce, specially printed for Valère Bachmann, son of the wife of Georges Mornay, founder of the publishing house, who will take over the company in 1935. copy enriched with a suite of illustrations in black on chine, as well as two original drawings by Pierre Noël, unsigned, used to illustrate the book . Beautiful copy, very well preserved. Provenance : Valère Bachmann.