Mon Docteur le vin.

Paris: Draeger Frères, 1936. Typography by A.M. Cassandre. 19 illustrations after watercolours by Raoul Dufy, covers after pencil drawing by Dufy. Folio, in a very handsome designer binding signed and dated 1958 by De Coster and Dumas on the turn-ins, full cream lambskin with white, green, citron, teal, pink, tan, red, green chestnust and pruple morocco and calf onlays, in a remarkable geometric design with gilt rules representing a glass and bottle in a cubist style design, with gilt curves, squares and triangles, spine lettered in gilt, green and rose endpapers, original wrappers bound in, housed in the original card slipcase.||A fabulous binding on an excellent book describing all the benefits of wine from preventing obesity, giving vitamins, curing typhus, depression, appendicitis, diabetes and helping character and morals. It also claims that it is vital for writers, artists and sportsmen.
The two celebrated women binders Germaine De Coster and Hélène Dumas were a formidable binding team producing over 300 collaborative bindings over half a century.|De Coster & Dumas Reliures 1935-1980 - Blaizot 1981 One of the important collaborative bindings by two celebrated French women binders - a homage to the health benefits of wine with illustrations by Dufy