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First Edition. 12mo, ff.[2], [2, halftone plates with examples of ink blot signatures], [45] blank except for 'date' at head and 'name' at foot on recto of each leaf; all blank leaves have been filled with signatures, in either black or blue ink, often with names and dates added in the specific spaces, dates ranging from Christmas 1912 to April 1918; a couple of signature leaves seemingly excised but a very good copy, bound in the original green cloth, with halftone reproduction of George Washington's ink blot signature to front cover; presentation inscription dated Christmas 1912 to front flyleaf.Very rare first edition under this title of a popular novelty autograph book, effectively a parlour game making use of klecksography, the art of obtaining symmetrical images from inkblots.According to the instructions at the beginning of the book, one should sign one's name vertically on a page, with a pen with a stub nib, then fold the paper along the middle of the signature while the ink is still wet, making sure to do so quickly to obtain a good result, and being 'careful to dot the i, and to place the period at the end of the name'.This process would consequently create a symmetrical pattern, which would reveal the 'hidden skeleton' (and ultimately the personality) of the person signing. Klecksography had been popularised by the German poet Justinus Kerner (17861862) who, in 1857, had published a volume of poetry and klecksographs after an accident with fresh ink caused by his poor eyesight had led him to discover the phenomenon. Klecksography was at the root of what became known as the Rorschach test, a psychological exam making use of inkblots to determine the unconscious parts of one's personality, devised by the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach (18841922), which was being developed around the very same time of the publication of this book but formalized only in 1921. The author, Cecil Henland (18701960), relying on the turn-of-the-century popularity of autograph books, spiritualism, and parlour games, and merging the three into one, had compiled various similar books following the same concept although issued under different titles and with slightly different angles, such as The Ghosts of My Friends, The Mind of a Friend, The Book of Butterflies, The Christmas Book: Lest We Forget, and Hand O' Graphs. Your Hidden Skeleton was obviously produced for the American market, as the klecksograph of George Washington's signature at the age of twelve used both on the front cover as well as an example at the beginning of the book, clearly suggests. Aside from her novelty books, Henland was the founder, in 1906, of the National Society of Day Nurseries, an association aimed at improving standards for day care nurseries in England. OCLC finds only three copies, all in the US (Harvard, Manitoba, and Chicago).

Couverture rigide. Fameux jeu proto-surréaliste rassemblant les signatures de grands écrivains | Dow & Lester | Londres s. d. [1908] | 10.3 x 17 cm | Relié | Album de signatures conçu par Cecil Henland, exemplaire de 1908 comportant 36 signatures de grandes figures de la littérature, du cinéma, de la musique, de la presse et du théâtre français, chacune datée entre 1908 et 1910. Reliure en chagrin rouge, dos lisse avec le titre estampé à l'or, vignette contrecollée sur le premier plat, tranches dorées, reliure de l'éditeur. Illustrée d'un frontispice reproduit sur une vignette sur le plat représentant un exemple de fantôme (The Ghost of a Celebrated General) tiré de la signature du célèbre général Baden Powell, fondateur du scoutisme. Un des plus précieux exemplaires de cet album fantomatique, préfigurant le test de Rorschach et les décalcomanies surréalistes, ayant appartenu à Yvonne Redelsperger, future femme de l'éditeur Gaston Gallimard. Les plus grands figures du Paris artistique y ont laissé d'étranges signatures repliées lorsqu'elles étaient encore humides, révélant 36 squelettiques silhouettes d'encre à partir de leurs noms?: Edmond Rostand, Georges Feydeau, Sacha Guitry, Maurice Leblanc et Gaston Leroux, Octave Mirbeau, Camille Saint-Saëns, ainsi que les proches amis de Proust, Paul Hervieu, Robert de Flers et Gaston de Caillavet ces deux derniers étant passés à la postérité sous les traits de Robert de Saint-Loup dans La Recherche du temps perdu. * Quinze ans avant la publication de Rorschach, Ghosts of my Friends attira l'attention d'éminents cercles artistiques du début du siècle. Loïe Fuller, la danseuse aux voiles phosphorescents possédait un exemplaire de Ghosts of my Friends que signa Auguste Rodin. Ce curieux objet se trouva même entre les mains de l'avant-garde dada?: Francis Picabia fit signer Marcel Duchamp dans son exemplaire de Ghosts. L'album a inspiré à Picabia une uvre phare exécutée vers 1921, consistant en son propre nom inscrit deux fois sur une feuille, le premier étant Ğ?une version maculée d'encre de son patronyme?ğ (Aurélie Verdier, Aujourd'hui pense à moi. Francis Picabia, Ego, Image). Ce précieux exemplaire qui rassemble les plus grands artistes et écrivains de la Belle Epoque, provient du salon d'Yvonne Redelsperger, qui navigue dans le Paris littéraire dès son enfance. Petite-fille de l'ancien propriétaire des collections et de l'hôtel de Cluny à Paris, et fille du dramaturge Jacques Redelsperger, elle épousera Gaston Gallimard en 1912. Jacques Rivière en tombera éperdument amoureux et décrira leur relation dans son premier roman Aimée publié en 1922 par Gallimard. Livre interactif conçu pour égayer les soirées mondaines (parlour game), The Ghosts of my friends représente l'une des premières explorations graphiques de l'inconscient et illustre l'intérêt grandissant pour la perception imaginative des taches, les traces et les marques arbitraires?: Ğ?Car ces signatures incarnées sont à la fois signifiants et signifiés. Hiéroglyphes fascinants, leur obliquité est impossible à traduire mais incroyablement séduisante?: ils réclament à grands cris une interprétation?ğ (Ann Cooper Albright, Traces of Light). Le jeu consistait à signer une feuille à l'aide d'une plume fortement chargée, puis à plier la feuille en deux afin d'obtenir deux taches d'encre symétriques. Le résultat, lorsqu'on le regarde verticalement plutôt qu'horizontalement, produit une signature incarnée semblable à un test de Rorschach. Depuis l'Antiquité en passant par la Renaissance de Léonard de Vinci, peintres poètes ont reconnu le potentiel de ces taches pour créer des expériences visuelles quasiment libérées du geste humain. À la fin des années 1850, le Ğ?tachisme?ğ devient divinatoire avec le populaire jeu du Ğ?Blotto?ğ. Les joueurs essayaient d'interpréter les méandres de l'encre sur le papier comme les feuilles de thé au fond d'une tasse. Le plus célèbre joueur de Blotto sera le jeune Hermann Rorschach surnommé Klecks, ou Ğ?tache d'e 2ff., 48 pp.

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