Hardbound 4:o (295 x 240 mm.) in a dark brown half leather binding. Spine blind decorated with text in gilt. Boards and endpapers marbled. Bound with original wrappers and spine . Slightly rubbed spine and corners mildly bumped. Inscribed by the author on half-title: "à mon vieux camerade Maurice Duyk. Cordialement M. Delacra." With Maurice Duyks initials dated Juillet 1938 on fly-leaf. Illustrated with 315 reproductions in black and white of the drawings of Michelange and a table of concordance in the end. 558 pages.