DAVID (Hermine) - GIRAUDOUX (Jean). - Lot 109

DAVID (Hermine) - GIRAUDOUX (Jean). Elpénor. Paris : Émile-Paul frères, [1926]. - In-4, 245 x 186 : (4 ff. first two blanks), 169 pp, (3 ff. last blank), 10 plates, printed cover. Light opaline morocco, boards decorated in the center with an eye figured by a mother-of-pearl piece in an oval of black morocco, placed between two double and wide wavy fillets of black morocco, with the name of the author and illustrator on the first board, as well as the city and year of publication on the second plate, smooth spine, lilac velvet lining and endpapers, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, dark green box spine folder with cover, lined case (Alain Devauchelle 2009). Estimated edition of only 230 copies, illustrated with fourteen original drypoints by Hermine DAVID (1886-1970) including four chapter headings and ten off-texts. One of the 30 head copies on japon impérial, enriched with a suite of drypoints on vergé d'Arches, an additional state of the first plate and 2 unpublished engravings, on the same paper. Beautiful copy in Alain Devauchelle's original binding, very well preserved.