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The Banquet. Paris, Javal and Bourdeaux, 1928. In-4, black morocco, Jansenist, blue morocco lining decorated with a golden Greek and a large frame with a mosaic pamper decoration in various tones, blue moire guards, golden edges on witnesses, cover and back, case (Ch. Septier).
Very nice edition illustrated by Sébastien Laurent, decorated with a frontispiece, 8 headbands, 7 off-text, 3 culs-de-lampe and 6 portraits in
medallion.

Unique edition of 50 copies on japanese paper, this one including the color decomposition of the frontispiece (24 plates), a suite in blue of all the illustrations except the frontispiece, 6 proofs of a non-text plate, and the final proof of the Decollation plate

.

The copy is furthermore enriched with 4 small original colour drawings, mounted by four at the beginning of the

volume.

From the Étienne Beauvillain library, with ex-libris.