DEMAISON (André) - GUYOT (Georges Lucien). - Lot 126

DEMAISON (André) - GUYOT (Georges Lucien). The Book of Beasts Called Wild. Paris: Librairie de la Revue française, [1930]. — In-8, 197 x 142: frontispiece, (6 leaves, first 3 blank), 204 pp., (6 leaves, last 3 blank), 10 plates, printed cover. Dark green morocco leather, covers decorated with a symmetrical composition depicting a silver antelope within a black morocco leather square, symbolizing a pair of bookends; plain spine adorned with a wide, long band in palladium, dark green morocco leather framing the interior, adorned with four pieces of dark gray morocco leather at the corners, joined together by three gilded fillets, green moiré silk endpapers and linings, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (J. Van West). Deluxe edition, the first illustrated edition, adorned with 11 original, out-of-text etchings by the animal painter and sculptor Georges Lucien GUYOT (1885–1973). One of the first 10 copies printed on Imperial Japanese paper (no. 6). A precious, unique copy, enriched with 17 original watercolor drawings by Guyot, as noted by the artist on the title page: “Adorned with eleven etchings by Guyot and seventeen watercolor drawings. Guyot 1932.” Beautiful mosaic binding by the Belgian bookbinder Jules-Karl Van West. Spine faded.