BÉDIER (Joseph). La Chanson de Roland. Paris, Hippocrate et ses amis, 1932. In-4, plum morocco, two green morocco mosaics with gilt fleurons extending over the spine, smooth ornate spine, gilt fillet inside, fleuron at the corners, sand box lining, sand moire endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine, slipcase (Andreas). Edition of the translation based on the Oxford manuscript. It is decorated with 29 original woodcuts in colour by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès. One of 135 copies on Hollande, this one no. 30 signed by the illustrator and printed for Monsieur Pierre Bellanger. Enriched with a double suite of illustrations (in black and in colour). The menu for the dinner given by Hippocrate and his friends on 29 March 1933 is bound at the head of the volume. A sumptuous copy, as much for the text and its illustrations as for the binding. From the Xavier de Planhol library, with bookplate. Slight rubbing.