WALCOT (William) - FLAUBERT (Gustave). Hérodias. Paris : Devambez, 1928. - In-4, 329 x 252 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), 54 pp, (2 ff.), 10 plates, printed cover. Maroquin burgundy jansenist, smooth spine, black box lining, burgundy moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (G. de Léotard, 1932). Superb edition printed at 220 copies, illustrated with original etchings by the Russian painter and aquafortist William WALCOT (1874-1943). The current edition includes twelve engravings, that is to say a frontispiece, seven hors-texts, four banners and a cul-de-lampe. The title mentions only eleven. ONE OF THE 26 FIRST COPIES ON JAPAN TO THE FORM, this one being one of the twenty-five containing three states of the etchings (the first, the second with remarks and the final state), FOUR ADDITIONAL PLATES in their three states and ONE ORIGINAL DRAWING SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. A very nice copy bound in the period by Germaine de Léotard (1899-....), disciple of Pierre Legrain. Spine very slightly faded.