Toi et moi: floral art in jewel-toned prints

By Paul Géraldy. Paris, Piazza, 1939. Octavo, 21 x 15 cm, paperbound with folded dust jacket, 163 pp., untrimmed edges, interior in excellent condition. 97 color compositions inspired by the language of flowers, including a cover illustration, frontispiece, title vignette, 32 headers, 32 headbands, and 30 tailpieces. Housed in a pink cardboard slipcase (minor foxing). Exceptional copy, one of 25 numbered copies on nacreous Japanese paper, here no. VIII, accompanied by two suites of 35 plates each (one in black & white, one in color) and enriched with an original watercolor by the artist.