544 - ILLUSTRES MODERNES - [BERQUE (Jean, Reims, 1896 - Paris, 1954)] - COLETTE : LE BLE EN HERBE. Original copperplates by Jean Berque, (23 H.T. in colour including the frontispiece). P. Aux dépens de l'artiste, by G. Girard, maitre imprimeur and P. Durupt, taille-doucier, 1946. Printed at 200 copies on RIVES VELIN, 1/150 N°135, SIGNED IN PENCIL BY JEAN BERQUE with an ORIGINAL AQUARELLE SIGNED in pencil by the artist. 1 vol. gd in-4, 185-[1]pp-1f., untrimmed, VERY GOOD BINDING in cream morocco, smooth spine decorated with 5 pieces of mosaic in havana for the author, the title and the illustrator, set with havana fillets and 4 ears of wheat mosaic in green with gold dots, green felt spine framed in cream morocco mosaic havana with double gilt fillet, paper endpapers on green background, cover illustrated with a vignette of "wheat in grass", spine preserved, gilt head, slipcase, [J. OGIEZ], (T.B.E.). The Geneva bookbinder JEANNE OGIEZ was a pupil of MARIUS MICHEL. A FINE COPY.