[FALKÉ (Pierre). Written in Lyon. Lyon, H. Lardanchet, 1943. In-folio, pearl grey morocco, gilt and mosaic bird decoration in several colours, ornate smooth spine, pearl grey moire lining and endpaper, double interior framing of gilt fillets and an orange morocco listel completed with a mosaic decoration in parma morocco with gilt and mosaic birds in several colours, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine, folder and slipcase (L. Lévêque). Illustrated with 100 original colour lithographs by Pierre Falké. Texts by Charles Maurras, Émile Henriot, Léon Daudet, Guy Mazeline, Alexandre Arnoux and André Billy. One of 25 copies reserved for contributors, this one on riverbanks printed especially for Paul Lardanchet, publisher of the work. Copy enriched with : - the complete suite of one hundred original watercolour drawings on paper by Pierre Falké used to illustrate the book. All the compositions are mounted under a cream passe-partout. - an original double-page watercolour and graphite drawing (32 x 48 cm) signed and accompanied by an autograph letter from the illustrator to Paul Lardanchet: "in memory of a very pleasant collaboration". - five letters of thanks to the book's publishers or contributors (four mounted on tabs and one loose): a facsimile of a typed letter signed by Philippe Pétain (Vichy, 12 January 1944, 1 pp. in-4, envelope), and four autograph letters signed respectively by André Dunoyer de Segonzac (30 October 1943, 2 pp. in-4), Marguerite Falké (10 November, 1 pp. in-12), Léon Daudet (Lyon, 14 November 1943, 2 pp. in-12), and Guy Mazeline (Varennes-sur-Allier, 3 March 1944, 1 pp. in-12). - a typed letter signed by André Billy, Émile Henriot and Alexandre Arnoux about Falké's delay in completing the illustrations for the book (Lyon, 11 February 1942, 1 pp. in-4, loose). - the menu for the dinner on 8 December 1943 "bringing together the artisans of a work happily completed despite the misfortune of the times" (2 pp. in-4), illustrated in colour, containing autograph letters signed by Charles Maurras and Pierre Falké to the publisher, accompanied by Pierre Varillon's speech delivered at the dinner (2 pp. in-4), all mounted on tabs. The suites are preserved in four grey slipcases.