40 CHANSONS ET DÉCHANSONS

Book Description

[Montpellier]: Fata Morgana, [1972].. Large octavo (25 x 16.5 cm). Loose signatures and acetate sheets laid into printed wrappers. About fine, in frayed and chipped glassine. First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated with four original lithographs by Jacques Hérold, printed in color by Mourlot, each of them signed in pencil by the artist in the margin. Copy #9 of an unspecified number of copies hors commerce, in addition to seventy-five numbered copies on Arches. There were also five hundred ordinary copies with the lithographs printed in bistre. Each lithograph is accompanied by a heavy sheet of deep red acetate which, when placed over the plate, dramatically alters the image due to its screening of the colors. MONOD 10791.

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