DAUDET (Alphonse). L'Arlésienne, play in three acts and five tableaux. Paris, A. Blaizot, 1911. Large in-8, fawn morocco, boards decorated with several frames including a roulette and gilt and mosaic angular fleurons, spine decorated, gilt head, cover and spine, untrimmed (Gruel). Edition illustrated with 20 drawings by the painter Octave Guillonnet, etched by L. Lesueur, including a cover, a frontispiece and 8 plates. Edition of 278 copies, this one of 25 on japon à la forme ancien, containing the etchings in 3 states, and an original signed watercolour drawing by the artist on cardboard, showing an Arlésienne in costume. A very fine copy bound with pomp and circumstance by Gruel, who has preserved its witnesses, increasing the format to a large octavo.