4 ton. 79 pages. With numerous, including 9 full-page color illustrations, some in pochoir. Handbound dark blue original shagreen leather binding with five-fold fillet gilt, a wide floral cover border, floral gilt spine, and a gold-embossed spine title, gilt lettering on the sides and inside edges, and gilt head edges. (Signed: A. Taffin, Rel.). One of 50 numbered copies of the deluxe edition on Japanese paper. The illustrated original jacket is bound in. A flawless copy in a magnificent binding by A. Taffin. Carteret V, 110. Mahé II, 460. Monod 6352.