Accession number
PML 195699
Published
[Paris] : Le Degré 41, an 1919 et 30 [i.e. 1949] (Paris : Impr. Union, 2 août 1949)
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2011.
Notes
Edited, designed, and published by Iliazd.
First and last sheets blank.
Consists of 27 sheets, usually folded in quarto, uncut, with text and images printed on one side of sheet, and with name of author, artist, medium, and sheet number printed on verso; in-4, these sheets must be individually opened to be read. The first and last printed sheets lack numbering. Folded sheets are gathered into five groups inside chemises that bear corresponding contributors' names for each group (cf. Contents). Last printed sheet, "Avis muet au relieur," is blank except for title and is often stitched to final blank sheet. Some copies issued in unfolded format.
Library copy is not folded, and includes an additional sheet 5 that lacks printing on the verso, and which has been marked in pencil: refusé.
Chemises bearing names of contributors in library's copy have been folded to 25 x 16.5 cm, and are laid in before sheets numbered [1], 5, 12, 18, 24, with the fifth chemise wrapping around sheets 24-26.
Last printed sheet is not stiched to final blank sheet in library's copy.
"Les textes sont donnés dans leurs transcriptions allemande, anglaise, française, et yorouba; le russe est transcrit en caractères latins"--Sheet 3.
Illustrations: 27 prints : wood engraving (7), linocut (1), etching, aquatint, drypoint and/or engraving (13), lithograph (6).
Wood engravings and Matisse linocut printed at Imprimerie Union. The etching was printed at the press of Paul Haasen; remainder of intaglio prints at Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris. Lithographs printed at Mourlot frères, Paris. Prints are chiefly b&w; several printed in monochrome, in black and monochrome, or in 2 colors. Image size chiefly ca. 1/4 of the unfolded sheet; larger prints usually include text or have text in letterpress superimposed. All blocks, plates and stones were effaced after printing; there were 4 "suites justificatives" from the effaced plates.
Library has copy no. 6 of 115 on Ile de France, out of total of 157 (i.e. 158).
First and last sheets blank.
Consists of 27 sheets, usually folded in quarto, uncut, with text and images printed on one side of sheet, and with name of author, artist, medium, and sheet number printed on verso; in-4, these sheets must be individually opened to be read. The first and last printed sheets lack numbering. Folded sheets are gathered into five groups inside chemises that bear corresponding contributors' names for each group (cf. Contents). Last printed sheet, "Avis muet au relieur," is blank except for title and is often stitched to final blank sheet. Some copies issued in unfolded format.
Library copy is not folded, and includes an additional sheet 5 that lacks printing on the verso, and which has been marked in pencil: refusé.
Chemises bearing names of contributors in library's copy have been folded to 25 x 16.5 cm, and are laid in before sheets numbered [1], 5, 12, 18, 24, with the fifth chemise wrapping around sheets 24-26.
Last printed sheet is not stiched to final blank sheet in library's copy.
"Les textes sont donnés dans leurs transcriptions allemande, anglaise, française, et yorouba; le russe est transcrit en caractères latins"--Sheet 3.
Illustrations: 27 prints : wood engraving (7), linocut (1), etching, aquatint, drypoint and/or engraving (13), lithograph (6).
Wood engravings and Matisse linocut printed at Imprimerie Union. The etching was printed at the press of Paul Haasen; remainder of intaglio prints at Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris. Lithographs printed at Mourlot frères, Paris. Prints are chiefly b&w; several printed in monochrome, in black and monochrome, or in 2 colors. Image size chiefly ca. 1/4 of the unfolded sheet; larger prints usually include text or have text in letterpress superimposed. All blocks, plates and stones were effaced after printing; there were 4 "suites justificatives" from the effaced plates.
Library has copy no. 6 of 115 on Ile de France, out of total of 157 (i.e. 158).
Description
27 sheets : ill. (some col.) ; 36 cm (in env. 29 x 37 cm, in port. 30 x 38 cm)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by Iliazd in red crayon on sheet 3, with inscription below: Avec un Arp Bryen refusé.
Binding
Loose unfolded sheets, with a folded blue-grey sheet laid in at front and one at back (as for endpapers), all together wrapped inside two blue-grey sheets and one outer small parchment chemise with Ribemont-Dessaignes vignette and 'ne coupez pas mes pages' stamped on front, all in large parchment wrapper that has been lined with blue-grey sheet, enclosed inside parchment envelope with title embossed in blind, and partial cardboard portfolio (lacking one piece), with title embossed in blind on cardboard.
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