Les arts et le livre

Illustrated edition with 22 watercolors by Guy Arnoux and printed in 550 numbered copies on laid paper.
Spine and covers slightly and uniformly yellowed, handsome interior condition.

Edition with original color illustrations by Joseph Hémard, one of 1100 numbered copies on tinted vellum, the only printing with 65 Annam.
Handsome copy.

SALIS Rodolphe & HEMARD Joseph
Contes du chat noir
Les arts et le livre, Paris 1927, 15 x 19.5 cm, 281pp. and 278pp., 2 bound volumes
This edition was illustrated with the first printing of 180 compositions by Hémard, coloured in stencils. One of 1,100 copies on velin de Rives paper, after the tirage de tête on annam, composed of 65 copies.
Part of the Mirror of Mores (Miroir des Mœurs) collection.
Contemporary grey shagreen, spine with two large painted and varnished images, one of a stylised black cat, the other a naked woman in black, grey and white, author and title gilt, covers in mosaic vellum with a similar theme, original covers preserved. Slipcase in grey, black and gilt marbled paper, foxing to endpapers, spines lightly and uniformly sunned.
A fine copy in a handsome, unique, unsigned binding.