Research Catalog

Title

Le bestiaire / de Paul Eluard ; eaux-fortes originales de Roger Chastel.

Author

Eluard, Paul, 1895-1952.

Publication

Paris : Maeght éditeur, [1948]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chastel, Roger, 1897-
• Signovert, Jean
• Maeght éditeur. pbl
• Fequet et Baudier. prt

Description

[191] p. : ill. (some col.); 39 cm. +

Subjects

• Bestiaries
• Charcoal drawings
• Animals in art
• Drawings
• Animals > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Drawings.
• Charcoal drawings.

Note

• Poems.
• Originally issued unbound, in 49 folded sheets (bifolia), in paper covers, ivory paper covered portfolio and slipcase; 2 blank leaves, not counted in collation, at beginning and end. The bifolia are folded off-center, so that each consists of one leaf 26 cm. wide and one leaf 30 cm. wide.
• Illustrations: 88 prints (1 on covers) : aquatint, some with etching, b&w, black and monochrome, monochrome, 2 colors ; double-page (1), full-page (38) and image 23 x 27 cm. or smaller (48). Plate marks not discernible. Comprise double-page print on Laga Auvergne paper covers, 45 ill. to the poems and 42 ornamental initials (called "lettrines" in the colophon, which gives total no. of ill. as 87). Printed by the artist and Jean Signovert on the artist's handpress. For discussion, cf. Strachan, p. 116-118.

Indexed In (note)

• Strachan, W.J. Artist and the book in France
• Fondation Maeght. Peintres-illustrateurs du XXe siècle

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1948 93-362

OCLC

• 8501339
• NYPG83-B46738

Author

Eluard, Paul, 1895-1952.

Title

Le bestiaire / de Paul Eluard ; eaux-fortes originales de Roger Chastel.

Imprint

Paris : Maeght éditeur, [1948]

Indexed In:

Strachan, W.J. Artist and the book in France, p. 328

Fondation Maeght. Peintres-illustrateurs du XXe siècle, 72

Local Note

196 copies printed by Marthe Fequet and Pierre Baudier, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, from Garamond type. No. IX of 5 copies (numbered VII to XI) on Montval paper issued with a suite of the prints in black and white and an original drawing.

Accompanied by the suite, consisting of the 45 ill. to the poems in b&w state, and by the original drawing, signed in pencil. In Spencer Coll. copy, the drawing (charcoal, depicting an owl) is bound in at beginning and the suite bound in at end.

Binding: Dark olive brown crushed levant morocco with inlays of white and several shades of brown box calf, by P.-L. Martin, 1962. Doublures and end leaves of olive brown suede. Original paper covers with double-page print bound in at beginning as 1 folded leaf. Enclosed in half dark olive brown morocco chemise, lined in olive brown suede, and olive brown paper covered slipcase, fleece-lined and trimmed in brown morocco.

For copy no. 101 of 148 on Vélin de Lana paper, unbound, as issued, with 88 ill. only, see Spencer Coll. French 1948++

Added Author

Chastel, Roger, 1897-

Signovert, Jean, printer of plates.

Maeght éditeur. Publisher

Fequet et Baudier. Printer

Martin, Pierre-Lucien. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1948 93-362