VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM (Auguste de). Akëdysséril. Paris, Louis Conard, 1906. In-4, midnight blue morocco, framed with ten gilt fillets, spine decorated, gilt edges, interior framed with orientalist and mosaic gilt motifs bordered with brown chagrin scrolls and eight gilt fillets, ochre moire endpapers, cover and spine, slipcase (Marius Magnin). First edition of 15 compositions by Georges Rochegrosse engraved in the text in colour by Louis Mortier. The text is set in an architectural woodcut frame. Edition of 190 copies, this one of 20 on japon impérial containing an original signed watercolour used for the illustration. This copy is enriched with four additional proofs of one of the illustrations, including one with the artist's corrections. Here, the watercolour (17.5 x 15 cm) is reproduced on p. 53, and the added proofs correspond to the engraving on p. 82. One spine cracked.