VAN DONGEN (Kees) & MARDRUS (Docteur, Joseph Charles Victor).

VAN DONGEN (Kees) & MARDRUS (Docteur, Joseph Charles Victor).

Hassan Badreddine El Bassraoui. Tale of 1001 Nights. Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1918. Large in-4 fir-green morocco, smooth spine framed in double gilt fillet, gilt title, boards framed externally in double gilt fillet, internally in a large oriental circular and curved motif surrounding a curved circle of double gilt fillet and a central finial, emerald-green morocco linings framed in single and double fillet, green moire endpapers, gilt edges, covers illustrated in color and spine preserved, in a green half-maroquin folder and slipcase. Green half-maroquin folder and slipcase (Semet et Plumelle). Illustrations by Kees Van Dongen include 7 watercolors in color reproduced hors texte au pochoir, 67 full-page drawings and 42 drawings in black in the text. Edition of 300 copies (+10 hc); n°37 of 83 on Japon impérial, complete with the suite of 4 censored erotic drawings.