COLUCCI (Gio) - MIRBEAU (Octave). Le Jardin des supplices. Paris: La Connaissance, 1925. - In-4, 328x247: frontispiece, (6 ff. 3 first blanks), XVIII pp., (1 f.), 210 pp., (5 ff. 3 last blanks), 13 plates, illustrated cover. Red chagrin, first board decorated with a set of wide vertical bands of black, burgundy and bronze chagrin on which are glued 6 pieces of white shagreen, second board decorated with three pieces of black, bronze and burgundy chagrin surmounted by a piece of white shagreen, smooth spine, gray suede lining and endpapers, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, red chagrin spine folder, lined slipcase (N. Berjon, 2020). Rare edition decorated by the painter and illustrator Gio COLUCCI (1892-1974) with 60 compositions, including 2 in pale green on the cover and 58 in black, stenciled on the title, chapter headings, lettering and caps, as well as 14 plates, including a frontispiece, etched and enhanced in color by brush. Edition of only 103 copies; this is one of 102 on vellum pur fil Montgolfier, enriched with a suite of Dyl's two compositions originally found on the publisher's folder, and a black suite of the book's illustrations. Beautiful binding by Nathalie Berjon in 2020. A very well preserved copy.