Saint FRANÇOIS D'ASSISE. Les Petites fleurs. Paris, Jacques - Lot 249

Saint FRANÇOIS D'ASSISE. Les Petites fleurs. Paris, Jacques Beltrand, 1913. In-folio, canard-blue jansenist morocco, 5-ribbed spine, interior framed in the same morocco with gilt lace, sandy moiré silk lining and endpapers, gilt head, cover and spine, folder (Later binding). Monod, I, 4979 /// (3f.)-VI-(2f.)-256. Text translated by André Pératé, illustrated with a frontispiece and 79 color compositions in the text by Maurice Denis, with different frames and ornaments on each page, all wood-engraved by Jacques Beltrand. First edition of the illustrations. Limited edition of 120 copies on Hollande laid paper, this one printed for the engraver and illustrator Auguste Lepère, bearing a dispatch from the publisher and engraver Beltrand, probably to the same: Voici, mon cher maître et ami / l'exemplaire / que je vous avais promis / et / croyez à l'admiration / et à l'affection / de votre dévoué / Jacques Beltrand / 1914. Enriched copy with 79 prints and decompositions of woods and frames, contained in a separate folder, and the specimen in 2 leaves.