DENIS (Maurice) - ROBINSON (Mary). An Italian Garden. Paris, 1931. - In-4, 285 x 265: (6 ff. first 3 blank), 66 pp. (2 blank ff.), illustrated cover. White parchment, gilt fillets and roulette framing the boards, gilt fleuron at the corners, gilt escutcheon at the center of the first board, ornate smooth spine, blue silk lining and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Yseux sr. de Thierry-Simier). First edition of this collection of poems, in English and French, by Mary Robinson (1857-1944), illustrated with 25 compositions by Maurice DENIS (1870-1943), including one on the cover, 12 in the text, one repeated on the title, and 11 full-page woodcuts by the Beltrand brothers. Unique edition of 225 copies printed on BFK de Rives wove paper by the imprimerie nationale. A precious copy from the collection of Count René Philipon (1869-1936), with 1 to 4 additional state prints of the illustrations, as well as the following items: - a partly autographed carte de visite from Maurice Denis, with envelope addressed to René Philipon, - an autograph letter signed by Jacques Beltrand, addressed to René Philipon, 1 page in-4, dated November 29, 1931, envelope enclosed, - two autograph letters from the author, signed "Mary Duclaux", 1 page in-8 square and 2 pages in-4, about proofs. - Proof print of the first 8 pages, bound at the end. A very fine, well-preserved copy bound by Yseux. Provenance: René Philipon, with the Château de Vertcœur coat of arms on the front cover. - Philos Montoy, with bookplate engraved by Andrada.