DYL (Yan Bernard) - PILLET (Roger). Les Oraisons Amoureuses de Jeanne-Aurélie Grivolin lyonnaise. Paris: La Connaissance, 1926. - In-8, 241x167: frontispiece, (2ff.),xpp., (1 f.), 213 pp., (1 f.), 14 plates, illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover, slipcase. New edition, one of the finest of this text first published in 1919. It is illustrated with numerous vignettes in the text and ornaments in red, as well as 15 original color drypoints out of the text and two color compositions on the cover, in the purest Art Deco style, by the painter and illustrator Yan Bernard DYL (1887-1944). Edition of 500 copies; this is one of 100 on Hollande Van Gelder, including a suite of ornaments on Annam. This is the second paper after 16 copies on japon impérial. Exceptionally enriched with a free figure in two states (color and black with remark), as well as a black suite of drypoints. These suites are kept separately, in sheets, under a publisher's flap cover, the same as that of the volume but unprinted. A very well preserved copy.