Description
1917
Ed. Camille Bloch, Paris, paperback, 86 pages
Dimensions: 20.2 x 14.6 cm
Original edition decorated with 29 vignettes drawn and engraved on wood by Raoul Dufy. Cream cover with the title printed in red and black on the 1st plate
Drawing:
- 1 on China with a double suite of engravings
- 5 on Japon Impérial with a suite of engravings on Chine, with remarks and signatures
- 30 on Japan
- 35 on large white Rives vellum
- 180 on Rives tinted vellum.
Copy on large white Vélin de Rives paper (n°61).
Autograph dedications on the first endpaper: "à mon ami Laboureur Raoul Dufy" - "À mon charmant collaborateur Roger Allard", February 1917. R. Allard is probably referring to his collection L'Appartement des Jeunes filles, which Laboureur was to illustrate with ten original burins two years later. Enclosed are two proofs of the engravings on pages 21 and 26, printed on China paper, dedicated to Laboureur and signed by Raoul Dufy (in pencil). Added edition prospectus on pink paper (2 copies).
