ROUAULT (Georges) - SUARÈS (André). Passion. Paris : Ambroise Vollard, 1939. - In-folio, 440 x 340: (4 ff. first 2 blank), 143 pp. (8 ff. last 2 blank), 17 plates. In leaves, filled cover. First edition of this vast poetic work by André Suarès, printed in an edition of 270 copies on Montval laid paper. This is one of the great modern illustrated books, decorated with 99 compositions by Georges ROUAULT (1871-1958), namely 17 original aquatints in colour out of the text, and 82 woodcuts drawn by the artist and engraved by Georges Aubert, including one on the cover, one on the title, 25 at the head of a chapter, 18 in the cul-de-lampe, and 37 full-page woodcuts. Copy 183, one of 245 numbered in Arabic numerals. It is complete with the table of hors-texts which reproduces the subjects engraved in black by Rouault on a double sheet. A very well preserved copy. Small light spotting on the upper cover.