THE APOCALYPSE OF SAINT JEAN:LITHOGRAPHIES ORIGINALES DE RUFINO TAMAYO

1959. Paris/Monte Carlo, Club International de Bibliophile, 1959. First and only edition limited to 255 copies. Folio. Original Covers and Folder. 142pp with 16 original lithographs each with tissue guards. With an additional lithograph signed by the artist and annotated "bon a tirer". Text in French. This is Tamayo's most beautiful and ambitious book. Published on Velin de Rives. Contained within publisher's folder and decorative folding box and a 3/4 Moroccan clam shell box made for this copy in 2005. References: Monod 322; "The Artist & The Book", p.200; "The Artist & The Book in France", p.342; Pereda 58-72.