COPIEUX (Albert). Norman cliffs. Remparts de la terre caucho - Lot 425

COPIEUX (Albert). Norman cliffs. Remparts de la terre cauchoise. [Le Havre], sn, [1954]. In-folio in ff. of [1] f. illustrated title, [8] pp. of table illustrated with 8 black and blue bands (the text on the first two pages of the table has been repeated by mistake on the following two pages), [8] ff. including 1 color frontispiece, [1] bl. f., [11] pp. of text illustrated with 11 black and blue bands and 24 full-page woodcuts in monochrome or color. Minor spotting. Attached is another copy of the text in in-4 format, in ff. without cover, illustrated with the title, 11 headbands and two full-page plates in fine (including the frontispiece taken from the in-folio volume). With a long E.A.S. from the artist to his friend Jehan Le Povremoyne (1903-1970, born Ernest Eugène Coquin, novelist, storyteller, short-story writer and poet from Normandy. A rare and beautiful collection by painter Albert Copieux (1885-1956), best known for his many sketches of soldiers' lives during the First World War. Settling in Le Havre at the end of his artistic career, he became director of the École des Beaux-Arts, contributing to its revival after the war. Ex-libris JM.