Paris (France)

First edition illustrated with 8 insert colour lithographs by Henri-Patrice Dillon, one of 500 copies on satin velin, our is unjustified, only print after 100 on japon paper.
Work decorated with a beautiful frontispiece by Félicien Rops.
Bradel binding in half brown morocco, spine decorated with gilt typographic motifs, gilt date at the foot, frame of gilt fillets on the marbled paperboards, caillouté marbled endpapers, covers illustrated by Henri Thiriet and spine preserved in one-piece, contemporary binding signed Carayon.
Beautiful copy perfectly set in a binding signed by Carayon.

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Exceptional handwritten dedication signed by Marcel Proust to the painter Jean Béraud followed by a long, entirely unpublished, handwritten, artistic profession of faith by Marcel Proust disguised as a false quotation “extrait[e] d'un vieux livre d'esthétique” (“extract from an old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.