TRAITÉ DU BURIN

Book Description

Paris: Librairie Auguste Blaizot, 1952.. 104,[12]pp. Small quarto. Gathered signatures laid into printed wrappers. Illustrated with 23 burin engravings, including frontispiece, eight hors- texte, seven in-text and seven culs-de-lamp. Opening letters in two colors. Trace of tanning at wrapper edges, occasional faint offset from engravings to facing pages, but a very good copy in board chemise and slipcase. First edition. Preface by Gaston Bachelard. One of 250 numbered copies, from a total edition of 260 copies printed on Vergé de Montval by Frazier-Soye, with the engravings printed by Georges Leblanc. A separate 4pp. key to the engravings (printing them in reduced size) is laid in back. A highly appealing work by this former student at the Bauhaus and later associate with Friedlander at the Hermitage Studio. Flocon's specialization in burin engraving, coupled with his practical and technical explorations of perspective (including the first theoretical exposé of curvilinear perspective) and space, produced a body of work fascinating in its melding of precision and imagination. MONOD 4752.

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