Le Cœur innombrable

Illustrated edition, limited to 68 copies. The illustrations comprise a title-frontispiece, 28 colored vignettes in the text and numerous colored wood-engraved tailpieces by Daragnès after pastels by Anna de Noailles, accompanied by the complete suite of thirty progressive states of a single plate, showing the color breakdown. 

Bound in full lemon morocco, mosaic boards composed of a border of brown morocco fillets in the form of stylized hearts, surrounding two concentric undulating gilt fillet frames, with hearts in brown and teal morocco fillets at the center of the boards, smooth spine with mosaic of brown and teal morocco fillets and gilt dentelle, original boards and wrappers preserved, gilt and mosaic interior dentelle, brown suede guards, slipcase in half lemon morocco with gilt and mosaic smooth spine, boards of wood-grain paper, box edged in morocco with wood-grain paper boards, binding signed by Madeleine Gras. Spine of slipcase slightly faded.

This copy is exceptionally enriched with the following items:

- an original pastel signed by Anna de Noailles (used as tailpiece p. 64)

- an autograph letter signed by Anna de Noailles to La Gandara, concerning Le Cœur innombrable (1 p.)

- 4 autograph poems by Anna de Noailles with additions and corrections: "Chansons pour des jours d'été" (published here under the title "Le Baiser"), "La nuit" published under the title "A la nuit," an untitled poem published under the title "L'ardeur" and "La nature et l'Homme" under the title "Fraternité" (6 pp.)

Ex-libris of Edouard de La Gandara mounted on one of the endpapers. A stage actor under the pseudonym Jean Dara, La Gandara notably collaborated with Sarah Bernhardt, and received numerous books with inscriptions from Colette, Maurice Donnay, the Comtesse de Noailles, and Anatole France.

A richly enhanced copy in a superb mosaic binding by Madeleine Gras.