Description
1945
Text by Prosper Mérimée
Éditions Chez Jean Porson, Paris
Dimensions: 25.3 x 19.8 cm
Edition designed to commemorate the centenary of this text. Illustrated with 39 original colour lithographs of Clavé, one for the cover, one frontispiece, 8 off-text and 29 in-text.
Bound by Lewitsky, brown half leather binding, gold title and 4 spine bits, illustrated cover preserved.
Drawing:
- 20 on Rives with a suite in black and a suite in colors of 38 illustrations of which 33 with an unpublished remark and an original watercolor, 4 unused plates of which 2 with remarks, 2 plates of the specimen with an unpublished remark, these 6 plates in double state
- 10 on Rives with the suite in black with remarks and an original watercolor, the 4 unused plates and the 2 plates of the specimen
- 20 on Rives with the suite in black with the remarks, the 4 unused plates and the 2 plates of the specimen
- 15 on Arches Vellum with the 2 plates of the specimen in black
- 185 only on Arches Vellum
- XXV HC on Rives or on Arches
One of 185 numbered copies on Arches
Condition: Very good