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LOBEL-RICHE. POË (Edgar) / Vingt histoires extraordinaires...

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LOBEL-RICHE. POË (Edgar) / Twenty extraordinary stories...
translated by Charles Baudelaire.
Paris, Le Livre de Plantin, 1927. Two volumes in-4, brown chagrin, spine with 4 nerves, gilt author and title, gilt filets, boards framed with a set of gilt filets and fleurons and mosaic pieces, gilt head, untrimmed (spine faded).
Edition illustrated with 41 original etchings by Lobel-Riche, including 20 hors-texte. Limited edition of 207 copies: one of 15 on Arches vellum (3rd paper after a single and 25 japon) including the pure etching of the twenty hors-texte, the black state with remarks, the color state with remarks, the black state of the lettering with remarks, a proof of the frontispiece with remarks, the finished state, and an original charcoal and red chalk drawing, signed, entitled "Lionnerie".
The second volume contains the suites