LE BALLET EN FRANCE: du quinzieme siecle a nos jours (With Original Lithograph by Picasso)

FIRST EDITION Folio (approx. 31.5 x 22.5cm) red silk hardback with white title to spine and white line drawing of ballet dancer by Matisse to upper board. Boards with bevelled edges. LACKING ORIGINAL PRINTED CLEAR ACETATE DUST JACKET. 381pp., profusely illustrated with tipped-in colour plates and 400+ b/w photographs and illustrations. WITH THE ORIGINAL COLOUR LITHOGRAPH FRONTISPIECE BY PICASSO, USUALLY REMOVED. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Small stains to endpapers from earlier mylar protection sleeve fixed with tape. Small rubbed patch to front pastedown and ffep. Very small dent to top edge of upper board and very slight wear to top and base of spine. A VERY GOOD COPY.