Footnotes

• FINELY BOUND BY GEORGES CRETTÉ, AND WITH THREE ORIGINAL ICART DRAWINGS. This was to be the last book illustrated by Icart, who supplied 22 full-page coloured etchings and two etched illustrations as chapter headings. The overall edition was limited to 165 copies, and the first 20 contained an original drawing with its original copper plate, the uncoloured extra suites of etchings, and the additional etching. The present copy was bound without the copper plate, but has three original drawings rather than one, and the additional etching is present in two further states, one coloured (signed and numbered 47/70), the other uncoloured (signed and inscribed "1er etat"). This copy was presented to Léon Michel, noted chef, book collector and publisher.
  
  Georges Cretté (1893–1969) was one of the great French twentieth century binders. He worked until 1925 as lead finisher for Henri Marius Michel, widely considered the founder of modern French bookbinding, often signing his bindings "G. Cretté successeur de Marius Michel". Cretté's bindings were influenced over the years by Art Nouveau and Art Deco aesthetics, and his faultless use of gold fillets earned him the nickname "maître des filets".