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A UNIQUE COPY OF A MAGISTERIAL LIVRE D'ARTISTE. The most poetic French translation of the Book of Genesis, illustrated with 87 WONDERFUL ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY JACQUES HOUPLAIN. An unnumbered copy beautifully printed on fine Rives laid paper. (The stated edition comprised 250 numbered copies.) This copy includes (A) A REMARQUE SUITE, PRINTED ON JAPANESE TISSUE, OF THE 87 ETCHINGS IN THE BOOK; (B) AN UNRECORDED REMARQUE SUITE OF 12 ETCHINGS, ALSO PRINTED ON JAPANESE TISSUE, SIGNED IN PENCIL BY THE ARTIST AND JUSTIFIED 2/3, WITH REJECTED REMARQUES (no other signed etchings from this book are recorded); (C) 17 additional proofs, some with remarques, also printed on Japanese tissue; (D) An original prospectus, illustrated with an etching from the book. Folio. Loose as issued in original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT, in the original cloth-backed board chemise and slipcase (a bit of wear to extremities of slipcase). A fascinating copy of an extremely attractive book.