DUBREUIL FERDINAND / Roland Dorgelès - Lot 59

DUBREUIL FERDINAND / Roland Dorgelès Georges Courteline, child of Tours, sparrow of Montmartre Tours, [chez l'artiste Ferdinand Dubreuil], 1958. In-4 in sheets, 18 bi-feuillets unencumbered printed on the recto of the first and verso of the second, 1 f. Filled illustrated cream cover, publisher's light yellow paper folder and slipcase. 18 out-of-text woodcut plates, including 13 plates signed by Dubeuil and 29 in-text drawings in color by Ferdinand Dubreuil, as well as a reproduction of a painting (in black and white) by Courteline depicting the Villa des Moinaux in Montmartre. Facsimile of an autograph letter dated May 1926 from Georges Courteline to his friend Firmin Gémier, director of the Odéon. Presented in a slipcase illustrated with a cord. Table of hors-texte plates. Edition of 350 copies, this one of 300 on Arches, printed nominatively for Mme Béatrice Bretty, actress and member of the Comédie Française for 27 years.