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a stunning binding by Leroux
Consul Constant. Dix poe?mes inédits de Pierre Lecuire. Neuf eaux-fortes originales d?Alain de la Bourdonnaye.
Paris, printed by Fequet & Baudier, 1958. 4to (325x225 mm). [28] leaves.
With 9 colour etchings by Alain de la Bourdonnaye (1 on the cover and 8 on separate plates).
Olive green morocco, with on the covers irregular high relief inlaid black boxcalf applications, inspired by the etchings of Boudonnaye. Flat spine with title in black lettering. Pastedowns of black boxcalf, first free endleaves of black peau de suede. Gilt edges. In a green half morocco chemise with black lettering and slipcase. (Signed "leroux 1959").
A book in perfect harmony of text, printed in the sober large Caslon type, and illustration, with deep etched etchings in various colours, finished with a masterly designed binding by George Leroux.
Issued in 75 copies printed on Auvergne, this is one of the 55 copies signed in pencil by the author and Artist (no 34).
Alain de la Bourdonnaye (1930-2016) was a French painter, engraver, publisher and printer. An "artisan-architect of books", representing the golden age of the artist's book, he has created some thirty publications since 1955. He learned the technique of etching in the famous worpshop Atelier 17 in Paris, which Stanley Hayter reopnend after the war.
Pierre Lecuire (1922-2013) was a French poet and publisher. He worked in close collaboration with numerous artists, for the publishing of unprecedented works, thus defining the book as the finishing-touch of the poem.
Georges Leroux (1922-1999) was one of the great modern French binding designers. His carrier started in 1947 and he was stimulated by Creuzevault and Rose Adler to show his designs. He uses all his fantasy and abandonned conventional rules in designing his bindings, which were exclusively on freshly editid books of contempoarary writers. He thus formed an extaordinary creative oeuvre, with also an eye for perfect execution of his designs.
-Literature: Musee Jenisch, Livres de Pierre Lecuire, no. 5; Peyré, Histoire de la reliure de création, p. 218-219.
-Condition: Slipcase joints partly split; Except form a small scratch on the lower cover, binding and chemise in perfect conditition. A ravishing bel ensemble of binding and book.
With 9 colour etchings by Alain de la Bourdonnaye (1 on the cover and 8 on separate plates).
Olive green morocco, with on the covers irregular high relief inlaid black boxcalf applications, inspired by the etchings of Boudonnaye. Flat spine with title in black lettering. Pastedowns of black boxcalf, first free endleaves of black peau de suede. Gilt edges. In a green half morocco chemise with black lettering and slipcase. (Signed "leroux 1959").
A book in perfect harmony of text, printed in the sober large Caslon type, and illustration, with deep etched etchings in various colours, finished with a masterly designed binding by George Leroux.
Issued in 75 copies printed on Auvergne, this is one of the 55 copies signed in pencil by the author and Artist (no 34).
Alain de la Bourdonnaye (1930-2016) was a French painter, engraver, publisher and printer. An "artisan-architect of books", representing the golden age of the artist's book, he has created some thirty publications since 1955. He learned the technique of etching in the famous worpshop Atelier 17 in Paris, which Stanley Hayter reopnend after the war.
Pierre Lecuire (1922-2013) was a French poet and publisher. He worked in close collaboration with numerous artists, for the publishing of unprecedented works, thus defining the book as the finishing-touch of the poem.
Georges Leroux (1922-1999) was one of the great modern French binding designers. His carrier started in 1947 and he was stimulated by Creuzevault and Rose Adler to show his designs. He uses all his fantasy and abandonned conventional rules in designing his bindings, which were exclusively on freshly editid books of contempoarary writers. He thus formed an extaordinary creative oeuvre, with also an eye for perfect execution of his designs.
-Literature: Musee Jenisch, Livres de Pierre Lecuire, no. 5; Peyré, Histoire de la reliure de création, p. 218-219.
-Condition: Slipcase joints partly split; Except form a small scratch on the lower cover, binding and chemise in perfect conditition. A ravishing bel ensemble of binding and book.
€ 6.000
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