BOYLESVE (René) and BRUNELLESCHI (Umberto). Love lesson in a - Lot 106

BOYLESVE (René) and BRUNELLESCHI (Umberto). Love lesson in a park. Illustrations by Brunelleschi. Luxurious copy on Japon (N°3), including an original watercolor and two suites of Brunelleschi's illustrations, on Japon mince and on Madagascar, impeccably bound by Grégoire Levitzky in full morocco. Paris, Albin Michel, s.d. [1933]. Large in-4 (260x320 mm), light green grosgrain morocco, spine with 4 cold-framed bands, front cover decorated with a play of gold, dotted and cold filleting, depicting a stream of water reminiscent of the cover illustration, gilt filleting on the edges, raspberry morocco lining set with a double gilded frame with cold-cut corner fleurons and mosaics in ochre, green and violet morocco, light-green moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, covers and spine preserved, half-maroquin banded slipcase. (G. Levitzky). Copper missing. 173 pages, numerous color illustrations by Brunelleschi, including 1 frontispiece, 20 hors-texte copper-engraved plates, and 42 vignettes and culs-de-lampe. Edges faded, slight rubbing at head and foot of spine. One flyleaf and browned spine on dust jacket, wear to slipcase. Deluxe edition limited to 464 numbered copies, this one of the first 20 on Japon supernacré (N°3), containing an original watercolor of one of the hors-texte (pp. 56-57) and two suites of illustrations, one on Japon mince and one on Madagascar. First edition of charming original compositions by painter and illustrator Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), engraved on copper and colored in Jacomet's workshops. An admirable copy signed by the talented and atypical bookbinder Grégoire Lévitzky (1885-1969).