Description
1943
Compagnie des Arts Graphiques, Paris
Dimensions: 30 x 24.5 cm
Leaves, publisher's dust jacket and slipcase. Foreword by Le Dantec. Collection of 18 poems from the Pléiade to Parnasse: Ronsard, du Bellay, Labé, Belleau, Jodelle, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Cyrano de Bergerac, Baudelaire, Nerval, Musset, Heredia...
Frontispiece by Dunoyer de Segonzac, 20 intaglio engravings by Bonfils, Berg, Ciry, Daragnés, Moreau, Frélaut, Savin, Jacquemin, Galanis, Vergé-Sarrat, Boullaire, Wild, Bersier, David, Laurencin, Waroquier, Goerg, Dignimont and Brayer.
Edition:
- 1 nominative HC on Auvergne with a suite on Berzélius and the states of the engravings
- 24 on Auvergne with a suite on Berzélius
- 26 on Arches with a suite on Berzélius
- 248 on Arches
- 24 HC on Arches with a suite on Berzélius
- 3 HC on Arches, one with a suite of scratched copperplates
One of 248 numbered copies on Arches paper, in a signed binding by Ed. Klein: full buff calf with brown or gold fillets on the boards depicting two intertwined lyres, title in gold on the spine, cover and spine preserved.
Condition: edges a little damaged, illustrations carried over to previous and following pages