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SATIE, Erik (1866-1925) and Charles MARTIN (1884-1934). Sports & Divertissements . Paris: Lucien Vogel [1914]. Oblong 2° (390 x 435mm). Satie’s manuscript score in facsimile throughout, 20 plates by Martin hand-coloured in pochoir by Jules Saudé. (Occasional light marginal soiling, occasional light offsetting from the plates onto the text, some margins lightly yellowed.) Original card portfolio covered in paper with an all-over pictorial design printed in pink, large label printed in maroon on light brown paper mounted on the front cover, original pink silk ties (corners and hinges rubbed and chipped, spine faded). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 225 COPIES, THIS ONE NUMBER 107. Sports & Divertissements is a striking collaboration combining Satie’s masterly avant-garde compositions with Martin's playful designs. Gillmor characterised these piano pieces as Satie’s ‘finest creative achievement, a superb marriage of style and idea, a crystallization of virtually everything that had preceded it, the purest distillation of an aesthetic ideal toward which he had been groping for a quarter century’. Martin, one of the most distinctive Art Deco illustrators, contributed to Gazette du Bon Ton , Harper's Bazar and many of the most luxurious publications of the age. A trade issue comprising just one plate was also published, with which this edition is sometimes confused. Gillmor, ‘Musico-Poetic Form’, in Canadian Music University Review 8, 30.