[GIDE (André)]. Les Caves du Vatican. Paris, NRF, 1914. 2 volumes in-8, bradel soft havana chagrin, cold fillet, smooth spine, patterned paper lining and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover (Period binding). First edition, decorated with a portrait of the author engraved in soft varnish by Paul-Albert Laurens. Unique edition of 550 copies on Arches candle paper, this one of 50 hors commerce. Autograph signed by André Gide on the false title: Le papier boit. An attractive copy in a soft contemporary binding, produced in the workshop of Paul Claessens with an attractive endpaper by Georges Lemmen. From the Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn library (2021, IV, n°176). Some usual brown spots on this paper. Pascal de Sadeleer, "Les papiers de garde de Georges Lemmen", Le Livre et l'Estampe, 1993, p. 95, n°7.