(Artist's Books) | Two French limited edition artist's books

(Artist's Books)

Two French limited edition artist's books, comprising:

Mourlot, Fernand; and Jacques Prevert

Souvenirs et Portraits d'Artistes. Paris: [Fernand Mourlot: 1972]

4to (323 x 250 mm). Limited edition of 800 copies, this number 4, with 25 mostly color printed lithographs by various artists including Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Jean Cocteau, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Bernard Buffet, Graham Sutherland, and others; offsetting and bleed-through from the plates, as to be expected. The contents loose, as issued, in original printed paper wrapper, with publisher's gray linen clamshell case, spine titled in black; wrapper toned, evidently from the interior of the clamshell case, a common occurrence with this title, the clamshell case with three spots of fraying and wear at the corners of the spine.

[and]

(Revue XXe Siecle)

San Lazzaro et ses Amis. Paris, XXe siecle, 1975

4to (355 x 262 mm). Limited edition of 575 copies, this number 390, with 15 color lithographs by various artists, including "lithographies originales" by Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Zao Wou-Ki, and others, and with "lithographies en second tirage" by Braque, Fontana, Magritte, Picasso, and others; offsetting and bleed-through, as expected. Loose, as issued, in original printed paper wrapper, publisher's linen clamshell case with spine titled in black, a photographic print of San Lazarro laid down on the interior of the front board; a few tiny spots of soiling to the wrappers, otherwise fine.