BELTZ (Robert) - BADE (Josse) La Nef des folles Souffelweyersheim : Aux dépens de l'artiste, 1980. - 2 volumes in-4, leaves, filled cover, in publisher's common blue cloth slipcase.203 copies printed on Rives vellum paper, plus a few hors-commerce copies for contributors. It consists of a volume with the French translation of the text by Adolphe Koch, illustrated with 58 humorous in-text and full-page compositions by Alsatian illustrator Robert BELTZ (1900-1981), wood-engraved by Guy Descouens, and a volume with a facsimile of the text based on the Strasbourg edition published in 1502 by Jean Pruss and prefaced by Jacques Wimpheling. An unnumbered chapel copy from the collection of Pierre Jean Mathan, who printed the woodcuts. It features : - a handsome woodcut in book format, dedicated by the artist: "To Pierre Mathan, // collaborator and friend // Robert Beltz." - 4 decompositions, - a color woodcut, - a suite of illustrations, - a decomposition with work in progress (2 copies). A very well preserved copy. Provenance: Pierre Jean Mathan Collection.