Samain | Aux flancs du vase, Paris, 1922, decorative morocco by Mercier, four suites of plates

Albert Samain

Aux flancs du vase. Vingt-six hors-texte de Serge de Solomko, gravés a l'eau-forte par Edmond Pennequin. Paris: Ferroud, Librarie des amateurs, 1922

4to (257 x 190mm.), copy number 21 from a limited edition of 500 copies, ONE OF 30 COPIES ON GRAND JAPON WITH FOUR STATES OF PLATES (including one in colour) and an ORIGINAL ACQUARELLE BY SOLOMKO (for the poem "Le sommeil de Canope"), 26 plates including frontispiece (each in four states), crushed dark green morocco gilt by G. Mercier dated 1924, Greek key border at corners with leafy decorative designs, spine similarly decorated in compartments, green and tan morocco gilt board liners, gilt edges, matching slipcase, original pictorial wrappers bound in

A fine copy of Samain's collection of elegiac poetry, which was first published in 1898; this edition has illustrations by the Ukrainian artist and illustrator Sergei Solomko.