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 limited edition of 160 copies.

Description: Illustrated dust jacket, housed in brown cardboard folder with paper title label on upper cover. Octavo: 24 × 20 cm; pp.: 49, [1] (unbound and untrimmed, as issued: 2 leaves with vertical fold [endpapers], 7 leaves with cross-fold [contents]). Illustrated with 25 polychrome woodcuts and 1 woodcut repeated four times on the endpapers. Printed by Jean and Jacques Vaucher on a hand press and handmade 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.