Les Regrets

Paris: Edition du IVe Centenaire, La Connaissance, 1925. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 1 of 50 exemplaires hors-commerce (non-numerotés) of a total edition of 380. Association Copy marked as "Exemplaire justifié: Imprimé pour Robert Steiner" - the engraver of the frontispiece woodcut portrait of Du Bellay. Includes an illuminated coat-of-arms on the title page. Bound in grey paper wrappers with black title to spine panel and illustration of Venus in a shell to the front wrapper. Heavy chipping to paper along spine, browning to edges of wrappers and spine panel. Printed in red, blue, and black inks in Maastricht, Holland. Bumping to foot of spine and to corresponding page edges. Clean, bright interior with light offsetting on several pages. A lovely edition of du Bellay's poetry. IN FRENCH. 122 pages. PRI/020923.