LYDIS, Mariette. ~ Le Trèfle à quatre feuilles ou La Clef du bonheur. Paris: G. Govone, [1936].
12mo (164 × 125 mm), pp. [76] including 16 pochoir coloured lithograph plates. Original pictorial wrappers preserved in a contemporary red, green and blue morocco binding with green shamrock motif to the upper cover.
First edition, one of 180 numbered copies on papier vélin (total edition 250 copies). A collection of sixteen illustrated proverbs and popular superstitions (broken mirrors, the number thirteen, touching wood and so on). Somewhat in the vein of the artist’s earlier dreambook (Orientalishches Traumbuch) it contains the ironic dedication: ‘Ce livre est dédié à la femme tout spécialement, cet être frêle et sans défense, faible et indécis, qui a tellement besoin d’un appui occulte pour la guider’. The pochoir colouring is by Saude and the typography by Maurice Darantière (of Joyce’s Ulysses fame). The attractive and unusual binding is probably the work of an accomplished amateur.