1951 · Paris
by MacOrlan, Pierre, Andre Salmon, Jean-Louis Vaudoyer
Paris: Les Heures Claires, 1951. One of 100 numbered copies on white wove paper, from a total issue of 312. 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 green morocco and paste-paper boards, spine paneled, title gilt, top edge gilt., original covers bound in. Titlepages letterpress variously in blue and black, black and red, with vignette of Centaur, Liberty, etc., fine. Each volume illustrated with 12 drypoints printed in black and colored by hand by Manuel Robbe after Charles Samson, with an extra suite of drypoints in black. These three volumes were published to celebrate the bi-millenaire of Paris, and were appropriately completed on "le jour de Sainte Genevieve", patron saint of Paris.
(Inventory #: 690)