ROCHEGROSSE

Jérôme DOUCET - Three legends of gold, silver and copper : Saint Marie the Egyptian, the beautiful face of death, the soul of the samovar. Illustrated with thirty-three compositions by Georges ROCHEGROSSE engraved in intaglio. Paris, A. Ferroud, 1901. Large in-8, 245 x 165 mm, brown jansenist morocco signed Aussourd, five-ribbed spine, inner border, gilt head, cover and spine preserved, in a lined slipcase (spine uniformly faded). [2], 121, [3], 4 pp. 33 compositions : 3 titles, 3 full-page, 25 in-text and 2 caps. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies. One of the 60 copies on japon or Arches vellum containing a black suite printed on chine (n° 49). Light scattered foxing.