Description
1949
Text by Benjamin Peret
Éditions Premières, Paris, 124 pages
Dimensions: 24 x 19 cm
First work of the GBMZ collection. The text in original edition is accompanied by 21 drawings in hors-texte, heightened in colors with the stencil and a cul-de-lampe. Max Ernst has also composed the lettering. Cover illustrated with an original lithograph, filled. Title page and double frontispiece in original engraving in colors.
Drawing:
- 1 on old Japan signed by the author, including 3 handwritten pages of text, a copperplate, 2 drawings and 3 original etchings
- XV on Vélin Montval, signed by the author, with 3 original etchings and a drawing
- 300 with 3 original etchings
- 5 names marked from A to E
- Some HC
One of 300 copies, numbered
Reference : S & L 28
Condition : Very good condition, pages slightly yellowed