Picasso, P. Kochno, Boris, and Marie Luz. Le Ballet. 378 pp., 3 Bl. With 415 partly full-page and colored illustrations as well as 1 original color lithography by Pablo Picasso. 31.5 x 22.5 cm. Red OLeinenband (slightly toasted) with lid illustration. Paris, Hachette, (1954). Signs the history of the ballet in France, begins with 1393, when "le sire de Guisay fit revêtir au roi Charles VI et à quatre autres gentilshommes des cotes pilues, frottaes de graisse et de poix, où on les cousit étroitement" (p. 9) and ends in 1951. A detailed bibliography is set out in the Annex. The color lithography by Pablo Picasso in the print of Mourlot. – cut somewhat patchy; Interior mirror with crack in the attachment paper.