DECARIS (Albert) - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Lot 228

DECARIS (Albert) - RONSARD (Pierre de). Discours des Misères de ce Temps. Paris: Le fuseau chargé de laine, 1930 - In-4, 327x249: (5 ff. first two blanks), 193 pp. (4 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Jansenist black morocco, ribbed spine, burgundy morocco lining with double gilt fillet, black moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Semet et Plumelle). A very fine edition at 359 copies, illustrated with 57 original copper engravings by Albert DECARIS (1901-1988), including two on the cover, one on the title, 20 full-page engravings, including the frontispiece portrait, 13 chapter headings, 12 lettrines and 9 culs-de-lampe. One of 300 copies on Montval laid paper. A superb copy in lined morocco by Semet et Plumelle. Enriched with an original signed drawing by Decaris in pencil and charcoal, for the full-page illustration on page 9, and one of 54 suites of illustrations on chine. Each proof is hand-numbered, here 14/54, and the 20 full-page proofs are additionally signed by Decaris. The final plate, which is intended to reproduce the illustration on the back cover, is different from the latter. A perfectly preserved copy.