Les dieux ont soif

Edition illustrated with 33 original etchings by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, including 30 full-page plates, 1 title vignette and 2 headpieces, together with 37 wood engravings by Paul Bornet after Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, comprising 29 initials heightened in red and 8 tailpieces.
Printed in 124 numbered copies on vellum, all bearing a nominative dedication, this copy issued for Henri Legendre.
Full burgundy morocco binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with a fasces of the lictor in red morocco mosaic set within gilt fillets, date and place gilt at foot, gilt rolls on the caps, front cover ornamented at center with a circle enclosing a Phrygian cap in red morocco mosaic framed in gilt, radiating gilt fillets filling the circle, the rear cover with the same decoration but replacing the revolutionary cap with a red morocco mosaic Masonic triangle and gilt plumb-line, triple gilt fillet borders and inlays of blue, white, and red morocco panels on red morocco doublures, moiré silk endpapers in red, additional marbled paper endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, slipcase trimmed with burgundy morocco, sides in matching paper, grey felt lining, a superb contemporary mosaic binding signed Blanchetière.
This copy is exceptionally enriched with twelve original pencil drawings by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, signed and inserted within the text.
Bound at the end of the volume is the illustrated menu (both with and before letters) by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot from the dinner following the distribution of the work, and at the beginning an additional title-page.
A printed description label of this copy is mounted on a guard leaf.
A splendid copy, perfectly presented in a patriotic Masonic full morocco doublé binding by Blanchetière and enriched with twelve original drawings by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot.