Accession number
PML 198752
Creator
Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961, author.
Published
Paris : Éditions de la Sirène, 1919.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Notes
Illustrations: 22 color or monochrome pochoir prints (3 double-page, 8 full-page) after Léger, including title page vignette and decorations on half title and in colophon; chiefly incorporating letterforms and textual fragments; some partly covering or surrounding letterpress; 6 incorporating line-block reproductions of drawings. Two additional full-page black and white prints on front and back covers.
"Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage 25 exemplaires numérotés sur papier de Rives à la forme, et 1200 exemplaires in-quarto raisin sur papier Registre vélin Lafuma"--Colophon.
Library's copy stamped 707 on the justification page.
In title, "N.-D." stands for "Notre-Dame," with reference to the statue of the angel of the Apocalypse on the roof of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris; the statue is portrayed as a cinematographer ("L'ange N.-D. opérateur") in Léger's drawing reproduced on page 28 (detail also on front cover).
"Originally conceived as a screenplay ... La fin du monde was instead published as a novel when funding for the movie fell through"--Wye, D. Artists & prints, page 72.
"La composition, en Morland corps 24, et le tirage ont été faits dans les ateliers de l'Imprimerie Frazier-Soye ... à Paris. Le coloriage a été exécuté dans les ateliers de Richard, coloriste ... à Paris"--Colophon.
"Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage 25 exemplaires numérotés sur papier de Rives à la forme, et 1200 exemplaires in-quarto raisin sur papier Registre vélin Lafuma"--Colophon.
Library's copy stamped 707 on the justification page.
In title, "N.-D." stands for "Notre-Dame," with reference to the statue of the angel of the Apocalypse on the roof of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris; the statue is portrayed as a cinematographer ("L'ange N.-D. opérateur") in Léger's drawing reproduced on page 28 (detail also on front cover).
"Originally conceived as a screenplay ... La fin du monde was instead published as a novel when funding for the movie fell through"--Wye, D. Artists & prints, page 72.
"La composition, en Morland corps 24, et le tirage ont été faits dans les ateliers de l'Imprimerie Frazier-Soye ... à Paris. Le coloriage a été exécuté dans les ateliers de Richard, coloriste ... à Paris"--Colophon.
Description
59 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 x 27 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the half-title page: À Georges Auric, cordialement, F Léger.
Provenance
Georges Auric (presentation inscription from the artist).
Binding
Decorated brown wrappers, illustrated by Léger in black; bound by Hélène Limousin in full charcoal black calf with silver and black circular onlays and onlaid wooden strips encased in colored leather. Housed in tan cloth case, spine lettered in black.
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