TOUCHET (Jacques) - ERASMUS. The Praise of Folly. Declamation of Erasmus translated into French by Monsieur de La Veaux. Paris : René Kieffer, 1926. - In-4, 233 x 183 : (4 ff. first two blanks), IV pp, (1 f.), 200 pp, (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Fawn morocco, boards and spine decorated with a continuous composition in cold, inspired by the illustration of the book, smooth spine, gilt head, cover and spine kept (René Kieffer). Edition drawn at 550 copies, illustrated with more than seventy humorous compositions in colors, including one on the cover and the others in the text, by Jacques TOUCHET (1887-1949). One of the 500 copies on white vellum, this one being one of the fifty including an original drawing used for the illustration of the book (here for the composition on page 16) and a continuation of the illustrations in red. Beautiful copy bound by the publisher's workshops, enriched with one of the fifty suites in monochrome reproduction of fifty watercolors by Touchet, each representing a different type of madman. Spine slightly faded, rubbing to the hinges.