[Two illustrated works]. CALBET (Antoine) / REGNIER (Henri de). La Pécheresse. Definitive edition, illustrated with twenty original off-text colored pencil compositions under captioned serpents and fourteen in-text in black by Antoine Calbet. Les Grands livres du XXe siècle, Albin Michel éditeur (1922); in-4 (33x26 cm), filled cover. Edition of 570, this one of 500 numbered copies on Arches vellum, slipcase. COURBOULEIX (Léon) / Du BELLAY (Joachim). La Vieille courtisane. Text and illustrations etched by Léon Courbouleix and printed by hand press (1949); in-4 (33x26 cm), folder (spines split), slipcase. Illustrated front cover, title in red and black, frontispiece, nine hors-texte and 18 in-texte, lettering in red, text and illustrations framed in gilt. Edition of 350 copies, this one of 280 copies on vellum, numbered and signed by the artist.

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