Arnoux - The Legend Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table. Piazza. Dezé Binding.

[ILLUSTRATED BY RACKHAM IN AN INCISED BINDING SIGNED BY LÉON DÉZÉ] - ARNOUX (Alexander) - The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Paris, H. Piazza, 1920; folio, 112 pp., full bottle green box calfskin binding signed Léon Dézé on the back of the book, smooth spine stamped with a modeled decoration, covers adorned with chiselled decorations modeled and stamped by Léon Désé, interior lace, folder and casing. Yves Devaux La Reliure page 355. Ex-libris Philippe Haumont. Numbered copy on Japan. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Very sought-after work in a large-format binding by Léon Dézé, the first cover of which represents a horse dressage in a relief frame of knights in front of the entrance to a cave, the back a knight riding a dragon, the fourth of binding with the same pattern as on the back but treated in a more elaborate way.