SURVAGE (Léopold) - COCTEAU (Jean). - Lot 185

SURVAGE (Léopold) - COCTEAU (Jean). Pégase. [Paris] : Nouveau cercle parisien du livre, [1965]. - In-folio, 448 x 350: portrait, (34 ff. first 3 and last 3 blank), illustrated cover. Beautiful work including the preface by Jean Cocteau in the original edition, followed by poems by the author from Léone, Renaud et Armise, Neiges, Plain-Chant, Cherchez Apollon and Poésie 1920. It is illustrated with a reproduction of a self-portrait of the author on the frontispiece, as well as a composition on the cover and 10 original burins by the painter Léopold SURVAGE (1879-1968), including 6 in the text and 4 full-page. Limited edition of 170 copies on Arches wove paper, this one specially printed for Edith Philippe, mother of Jean-Loup Philippe. A very well preserved copy.