First French edition. Octavo. Publisher’s original plain white card boards with illustrated colour dustwrapper. Illustrated with 18 colour plates, 86 black and white plates and 15 in-text illustrations. 448pp. Printed card from the author and translator with manuscript ink greeting (”with affectionate greetings from the author and the translator”), plus original envelope addressed to Orovida Pissarro, loosely laid in. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. The contents with some light foxing to the endpapers and edges of the textblock, a small ink spot to the top edge of the textblock, and a minor crease to the blank corner of two text pages, are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. The dustwrapper with some marking, a few small chips and tears to the spine panel and a little wear to the extremities.