LEBÈGUE (Léon) - HARAUCOURT (Edmond). Les Gants. S.l., 1899. - In-4, 293 x 189 : (16 ff.). Antique reused bradel parchment, smooth spine, red edges (period binding). Unique copy of this poem by Edmond Haraucourt from the Légende des sexes, calligraphed on bluish laid paper and illustrated with 15 original drawings by designer and illustrator Léon LEBÈGUE (1863-1944). The drawings were done in ink on daffodil paper, then pasted into a red ink frame. The handwritten text is calligraphed in black, underlined in red. The text on each page begins with a large lettering in red, decorated with blue. The work includes a false-title leaf calligraphied in red and decorated in blue and red, and 15 illustrated leaves including a title, a dated justification leaf, a dedication leaf, "à très-haultee princesse Russiane qui m'avait convié à venir en son logis", eleven leaves with the text of the poem and a final "end" leaf. Very fine unpublished work, in a binding covered with a fragment of an old manuscript. Some foxing.