Broché. Condition: . s.d. vers 1950. In 8 broché, couverture illustrée, textes de Paul Reboux, Marguerite Burnat-Provins, Pierre Rocher. 16 illustrations hors-texte en couleurs et en relief de Marcel Pautot. Tirage limité à 500 exemplaires, légendes autographes des hors texte, petit manque à l'illustration de couverture, sinon bel exemplaire.
Grasse, "Le Mail", s. d. In-12, non paginé [20] pl., broché, couverture originale illustrée (petites rousseurs ou taches, une estampe décollée). Jolie édition illustrée des "glyptographies" en relief et en couleurs de Marcel Pautot accompagnant des textes de Pierre de Sentenac, Francis de Miomandre, Henri Puvis de Chavannes, Madeleine Luce ou encore Michel Puisaye. Un des 500 exemplaires sur vergé crème. Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s) * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve.
Publication Date: 1950
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United Kingdom
US$ 1,018.79
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket8 Tipped in gypsograph prints by Marcel Pautot with an additional print on the upper cover. 420 of 500 copies. 8vo. Sized, 15x19.5cm, pp. [1-12], 13-73, [74-80]. Publishers original white paper wrappers, upper cover with onlaid gypsograph print by Pautot, lettered in red and black, covered with glassine jacket. Grasse, "Le Mail" Djenan Ourida. 1950. Very good, text pages darkened at edges. Marcel Pautot was first and foremost a commercial sculptor and metalsmith, creating medals and perfume bottles in France during the mid-twentieth century, but he also experimented with printing, illustrating four books using the eccentric technique of gypsography. Gypsography was pioneered by another French sculptor, Pierre Roche, in the 1890?s and was best described by him as a ?procedure by which one executes, inks and pulls prints on plaster?, creating a three-dimensional print with ?a particular texture and great softness of modelling? which was then hand-coloured, creating in effect a monotype. Little is known about Pautot as an illustrator, but it seems likely that Le Pêcheur de Lune was his first attempt, with three other works following in quick succession. The text seems to have been printed by a local jobbing printer in Nice on the Avenue de la Victoire, whose typesetting and choice of paper leave something to be desired. The illustrations, on the other hand, were printed by Pautot himself, most likely from metal molds, and all are small vignettes, which were hand coloured, then cut out and glued onto plates tipped in to the text. A survey by William Cole of multiple copies of another work by Pautot suggests that this was an unregulated process, with each copy showing not only radical differences in the colouring of each image, but with a different selection of images in each copy. It is not clear whether this reflects the results of an amateurish and chaotic workshop or rather an artistic choice to make each copy unique, but the strength of differences in colouring between multiple copies does suggest intentionality. Our copy of Pêcheur contains 9 prints, including the cover, which matches the copy held by the Bibliothecque Nationale de Francais, however other copies are recorded with 10; there is no sign of anything lacking from our copy and it may well be that this is simply a variant state. 5 copies visible on OCLC worldwide. .
Published by Le Mail, Grasse, 1949
Seller: Librairie Pierre Chretien - Jean Izarn, PARIS, France
Association Member: ILAB
. Illustrateur : PAUTOT (Marcel). (illustrator). Illustrations de Marcel PAUTOT. Grasse, Le Mail, (1947 et 1949), 2 volumes in-8, brochés, couvertures estampées d'une vignette en couleurs et en relief. Charmants ouvrages, recueilles des textes et poèmes d'écrivains et artistes fameux sur cette superbe région qu'est la Provence. Il sont agrémentés de 16 vignettes, pour l'un, de 21 vignettes, pour l'autre. Toutes en relief, en couleurs et hors-texte réalisées par Marcel PAUTOT. Les textes sont signés Francis de Miomandre, Henri Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre de Sentenac, J. Pourtal de Ladevèze, François Carnot, Bernard Barbery, Mario-Meunier, Henri Vendel, Madeleine Luce, Paul Forestier, Michel Puisaye, Paul Reboux, Marguerite Burnat-Provins, Pierre Rocher, etc. Infimes rousseurs, plis à la couverture, usures à la vignette en couleurs, brochage fragile. Envois datés de l'artiste sur les deux ouvrages. Tirages limités à 550 exemplaires. Un des 50 exemplaires avec une esquisse originale en couleurs ayant servi à la composition des vignettes pour Images de Provence. Un des 500 exemplaires vergé crème pour Images de Provence - Cannes Grasse. Manque l'illustration en relief sur la couverture de ce dernier. Très légers accidents et plis aux couvertures, infimes rousseurs, pages légèrement jaunies. Nous joignons 8 illustrations gaufrées et en couleurs. Livre.