
First edition.
Tears with losses to the spine.
Text by Pierre Volboudt.
This issue is illustrated with 8 lithographs by Antoni Tàpies.
Dated and signed presentation inscription by Antoni Tàpies, in French, to his friend Georges Raillard, former director of the Institut Français in Barcelona and a leading authority on Tàpies's work, and to his wife Alice.
First edition printed with 750 numbered copies on Arches Velin and planned for the exhibition of Léger's works organised at the Louis Carré gallery from 19 November to 31 December 1954, for which the catalogue has been published only two years after the retrospective.
Work illustrated with original lithographs by Fernand Léger: 6 unpaged colour plates, two of which are double pages, 5 black and white unpaged plates and 10 within the text.
A beautiful copy despite slight rubbing to the caps.
An original drawing signed and dated 1963, on thick paper, with an autograph inscription from the artist at the bottom dated 1969.
An exceptional original ink, pencil, and felt-tip color drawing by Lawrence Durrell, signed with his artist's pseudonym of '[Oscar] Epfs 1963'».
This work was given to his French lover Janine Brun in 1969 and has an exceptional inscription «My dear Buttons. I have asked my friend Oscar Epfs to give me a small drawing for your studio. Here it is. I hope it gives you Happy memories of Paris and meetings with Miller! Your devoted Laurence Durrell / Sommières / 1969.»
This work is steeped in his long years in Greece and...
The work was placed on the Index and reissued in 1575 in an expurgated version. The first French translation appears to have been published in 1527, according to a copy held at the University of Glasgow, although another source gives 1528 as the date of the first French edition in Latin by Robert Estienne. Rare, like all editions. Not listed in the BnF or in French library catalogues (with the exception of a 1586 Lyon edition), nor in many other library holdings. Brunet gives 1499 as the original date, V, 1135. Le Grégoire cites 1571 for the first edition...
Bound in full brick paper-covered boards, late 18th or early 19th century; title in ink faded and illegible.