[LARBAUD]SCEVE, Maurice. Microcosme. - Lot 103

[LARBAUD]SCEVE, Maurice. Microcosme. First edition of Valery Larbaud's preface with dispatch for this modern edition by Stols. Maestricht , A.A.M.STOLS publisher, 1928. In-8, paperback, flap cover, uncut. 111 pages, one portrait-frontispiece and 6 woodcuts. First section detached. First edition of Valéry Larbaud's preface to this modern illustrated edition of verses by the 16th-century humanist poet Maurice Scève. The text is decorated with woodcuts by Jan Franken, in attractive typography with red lettering. Limited edition of 650 copies, this one of 600 numbered on Pannekoek stained laid paper (n°634). Enriched with an autograph letter signed on the flyleaf from Valery Larbaud "to Monsieur Joseph Aymard, countersigned by the publisher and dated "19-4-1928". A good copy.