28.5 x 18 cm. 12 pages, 1 sheet with publisher's imprint. With a large initial by Aristide Maillol, heightened in gold bronze and lapis lazuli. Hand-bound original red morocco binding on 5 ribs with surrounding gold fillet, cover title, and gilt head edge. (Signed O. Dorfner, Weimar). - Fine print by the Cranach Press in red and black. This is one of the very few prints of the deluxe edition in which the "C" in the hand-gilt initial was heightened with lapis lazuli by Max Goertz. The speech was given by the then French ambassador to Berlin at the opening of the exhibition organized by the Franco-German Society. A flawless copy. - Müller-Krumbach 53 with 2 illustrations.