Rare edition, no deluxe copies recorded, with statement of two thousandth edition.
Preserved wrappers with doublure, contemporary binding.
Upper cover illustrated by Jean Béraud.
Les Plaisirs et les Jours
First edition on ordinary paper, illustrated with drawings by Madeleine Lemaire including 14 inset, preface by Anatole France and scores by Reynaldo Hahn.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine in five compartments, marbled endpapers, large gilt lace tooling frame on the inner covers, wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, gilt fillet on the leading edges, contemporary binding signed by Franz.
Exceptional handwritten dedication signed by Marcel Proust to the painter Jean Béraud followed by a long, entirely unpublished, handwritten, artistic profession of faith by Marcel Proust disguised as a false quotation “extrait[e] d'un vieux livre d'esthétique” (“extract from an old aesthetic book”).
Copy enriched with a signed original watercolour by Madeleine Lemaire.
