MAUROIS, André Les silences du colonel Bramble.... Lot 202

MAUROIS, André Les silences du colonel Bramble. [- Doctor O'Grady's speeches]. With fifteen burin engravings by J.-E. Laboureur. Paris Société d'édition "Le Livre" 1926 [- 1929] 2 vol. in-8°. Red morocco signed [Madeleine] Gras, boards decorated with gilt scrolled fillets and "tartan" decoration formed of multicolored mos. scrolls, smooth spines decorated with the same, red suede lining and endpapers, gilt tr. on pet. witnesses, covers cons. In bordered slipcases. Very fine set. First editions illustrated, each with 15 burins by Laboureur: front, entablature, 12 in-text and cul-de-lampe. War stories printed in 430 copies, one of 350 on Arches vellum (no. 95 and 67). The "Silences" copy includes a suite of engravings on Marais rose vellum. Perfect "Scottish" bindings by M. Gras (1891-1958), a pupil of Noulhac.