BANVILLE (Théodore de) - ROCHEGROSSE (Georges). Les Princesses. Paris: Librairie des amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud successeur, 1904. - Large in-8, 283 x 187: frontispiece, VI pp, (1 f.), 42 pp, (3 ff. last blank), 20 plates, illustrated cover. Jansenist eggplant morocco, ribbed spine, pink morocco lining edged with gilt fillet and decorated with two gilt fillets framing a decoration of leaves and flowers in cold, gilt and mosaic in dark green, gray and yellow morocco, brown moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, lined case (Ch. Lanoé). Edition of 402 copies, illustrated with 24 compositions by Georges ROCHEGROSSE (1859-1938), etched by Decisy, including a frontispiece, a title vignette, a header, a cul-de-lampe and 20 hors-textes. Copy on Arches vellum, reserved for J. Doucet, justified by the publisher. The author is undoubtedly Jérôme Doucet (1865-1957), who published his collection Trois légendes d'or, d'argent et de cuivre with Ferroud. A very fine copy in a lined and mosaic binding by Charles Lanoé, produced for the bibliophile Maurice Quarré. It is enriched with the following items: - two suites of the 24 etchings (avant la lettre with remarks and pure etching with remarks), - one of the 20 suites of refused woodcuts on japon mince, - publication prospectus. Spine slightly faded, some minor wear. Provenance : Jérôme Doucet. - Maurice Quarré, with bookplate designed by Giraldon.