First edition. Deluxe edition limited to 50 copies. Publisher's full brown leather with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with colour and black and white plates throughout. Text in French and English. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the original card slipcase.
The deluxe issue, limited to only 50 copies of which this is number 44 (XLIV); the regular issue, bound in cloth was limited to 1500 copies. An important reference work, offered here in its most desirable issue.
Stock code: 22765
£675