Le diable dans le beffroi.

J. et J. Vaucher, Paris, 1927

Rare edition of Poe’s ‘The Devil in the Belfry’ illustrated with 25 polychrome woodcuts by Jacques Maret. Hand-numbered copy no. 18 from a limted edition of 160 copies.

Description: Plain wrappers with illustrated jacket, housed in brown cardboard folder with paper label to front. Octavo: 24 × 20 cm; pp. 49, [1] (unbound and uncut as issued: 2 single folds [endpapers], 7 cross folds). Illustrated with 25 polychrome woodcuts and 1 large woodcut, repeated four times on the endpapers. Printed on the hand press of Jean and Jacques Vaucher on hand-made paper.

Condition: The cardboard folder with signs of use and age, somewhat stained. The dust jacket faintly spotted. Contents with some offsetting from woodcuts. Apart from that a very good copy.