Ubu Roi

Ubu Roi
Second edition, partly unpublished, printed with 300 copies using the autographic facsimile reproduction method: the handwritten text by Alfred Jarry is carefully written in calligraphy like the score written by Claude Terrasse, which is itself in first edition, one of 10 copies on Japan paper, the tirage de tête before 10 Holland paper.

Binding in full garnet morocco, spine decorated with curved gilt fillets continuing on the boards, names of the author and the artist embossed in white, boards stamped with gilt and tricoloured (green, blue and white) fillets forming the title Ubu Roi in pataphysic calligraphy, endpapers in yellow watered and spangled fabric, frame of gilt stippling and a set of circles in the colours of the letters on the boards, following endpapers of glued paper enhanced with gold, all edges gilt, covers and mounted spine preserved, chemise in half morocco with strips and garnet flaps, glued paper boards enhanced with gold, beige felt interior, slipcase turn-ins split but remaining solid, glued paper slipcase enhanced with gold edged in garnet morocco, beige felt interior, beautiful Art Deco binding signed J. Anthoine-Legrain.
Unavoidable and light discharges of ink in view of the quality of the Japan paper.

The first iconoclastic masterpiece by the ubuesque precursor of Dadaism, surrealism and pataphysics.

Provenance: the library of Albert Cornet-Épinat with his ex-libris glued to the first white endpaper.