Résurrection de L'Oiseau [Resurrection of the Bird]
Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1958. Hardcover. Number 166 of 225 numbered copies on Vélin de Rives paper. Signed by both the author and illustrator. A livre d' artiste featuring original lithographs by Georges Braque. A tribute to the Braque written by art historian and French journalist Roger Lesblats (1899 - 1978) under a pseudonym. Issued as a collection of loose leaves housed in a lithographed paper portfolio covered in the original glassine. An additional three full page color lithographs and three vignettes illustrate the text. Set in Baskerville type and printed at the presses of Fequet et Baudier for Maeght Éditeur with original lithographs printed by Mourlot Frères. The book is clean and bright. The portfolio is housed in a grey stiff paper covered folder that inserts into a matching grey paper covered slipcase. Paper title label to spine of folder and purple design to front panel of case. Minor wear to edges and panels of case. ART/030424. Very Good. More