COLUCCI (Gio) - MIRBEAU (Octave). - Lot 113

COLUCCI (Gio) - MIRBEAU (Octave). Le Jardin des supplices. Paris: La Connaissance, 1925. - In-4, 327 x 247: frontispiece, (6 ff. first 3 blanks), XVIII pp., (1 f.), 210 pp. (5 ff. last 3 blanks), 13 plates, illustrated cover. Black long-grain goatskin, composition of vertical stripes of black goatskin, red box, black box and black box gilt leaf on boards, smooth spine, edge-to-edge black box lining, burgundy suede endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, edged slipcase (Anick Butré 1998). Rare edition decorated by the painter and illustrator Gio COLUCCI (1892-1974) with 60 compositions, including 2 in pale green on the cover and 58 colored in stencil on the title, chapter headings, lettering and endpapers, as well as 14 plates, including one frontispiece, engraved in etching and enhanced in color with a brush. Edition of only 103 copies; this is one of 102 on vellum pur fil Montgolfier, enriched with a black suite of the book's illustrations. A precious copy bound by Anick Butré, with the two color compositions by Dyl originally found on the publisher's dust jacket. The suite, in sheets and filled cover, has been placed in a soft folder made of the same materials as the binding, with a decoration in the same spirit but different. A very well preserved copy.