Verlaine, Paul. Fêtes galantes. 100 pp., 2 Bl. With coloured title and 20 colour panels, partly heightened with silver and gold, according to watercolors by Georges Barbier. 30 x 23 cm. Two-coloured, red-black maroquin band of the 1960s with broken back and goldgepr. Title; colored illustrative. O Envelope attached. In lined cardboard slipper with leather edge. Paris, H. Piazza, 1928. Mahé III 650. Carteret IV 393. Monod 11092. – "Belle publication ... elle est très cotée, surtout en grand papier" (Carteret). One of 800 numbered copies (total edition 1200 copies). The highly decorative illustrations in Rococo style clean and in luminous Pochoirkolorite. The individual layers were placed on different coloured leather folds, which - as colorful lines visible - form a book back. Five leather bands indicate frets, on them the title is embossed, the upper and lower end of the back (capital and "tail") bear the names of the author and the illustrator. – Single minimally patchy; overall very nice specimen in an unusual master cover.