SAUVAGE (Sylvain) - RÉGNIER (Henri de). - Lot 278

SAUVAGE (Sylvain) - RÉGNIER (Henri de). Les Rencontres de monsieur Bréot. Paris : Sylvain Sauvage, 1927. - In-4, dark blue morocco, boards decorated with three frames composed of a double gilt fillet, a gilt roulette with fleuron at the corners and a straight, curved listel in blue morocco, gilt garland in the central frame, ornate ribbed spine, gilt fillets and roulette framing the inside, blue moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (J. Trinckvel). Edition of 177 copies, illustrated with over sixty color woodcuts and figures by Sylvain SAUVAGE, whose real name was Félix Roy (1888-1948). One of 140 copies on Arches vellum. Spine rubbed, hinges cracked.