MÉRIMÉE (Prosper) - MARTIN (Charles). Carmen. Paris: Éditions de la Roseraie, [1926]. - In-4, 246 x 189: frontispiece, (2 ff.), XII pp., (2 ff.), 142 pp., (2 ff.), 5 plates, illustrated cover. Orange chagrin, boards decorated with bands of black morocco and gilt fillets depicting a fan starting from the center of the spine, spine with a large central rib decorated with black morocco, forming the base of the fans, three inner gilt fillets, gilt paper lining and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (Massénat). Charming and rare edition of only 176 copies, illustrated with 41 compositions by Charles MARTIN (1884-1937), including 6 in the black manner out of the text and 35 etchings in color with register in the text. There is also a fine composition by Martin on the cover, in silver on a violet background. One of 150 copies on tinted Rives vellum, with a black suite of illustrations. A fine copy bound in the 1940s by Massénat. Spine slightly faded.