Les Heures, Les Ors, La Mort, limited & inscribed, with original drawings by Leonard Sarluis for the illustrations

Paris: Mercier, 1923. Very Good. No.158 of 500, this one inscribed by Julius Sarluis to Horatio Klug, with an additional note that the poem on p. 75 with the printed dedication to "H. K." is dedicated to him. 12mo (6.5 x 5 inches), illustrated wraps, 80 pp, a few illustrations in b/w. This is accompanied by the original drawing for the cover, 3 original drawings for the illustrations and a trial proof of the front and back cover illustrations, all with Sarluis' notes to the printers. Also accompanied by a 1997 "Individual Book Report" that was apparently part of an estate inventory, noting that this book and the accompanying original illustrations were purchased from the Nevill Keating Gallery in London in August 1986 at a cost of 65,000 Francs; $9743.50 at the time. Leonard Sarluis (1874-1949) was a well known French Symbolist painter, praised by Jean Lorrain and Oscar Wilde, and his illustrations for the 1923 edition of Gaston de Pawlowski's surrealist science fiction novel, Voyage au Pays de la Quatrième Dimension, were said to have a profound influence on Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass" and other works. He was apparently working on a series of paintings that were a "mystical interpretation of the Bible" that was never completed. Philippe Julian and Edward Lucie-Smith in their books on the Symbolists also mention Sarluis with approval. We are pricing this about a third of what it fetched 34 years ago.