Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Franz von Assisi. Bernard, Émile. Les petites fleurs. Traduction de Maurice Beaufreton.

With 2 illus. titles, 199 full-page illus. with bordures, 57 vignettes and 66 initials, all cut in wood by Emile Bernard and printed in bister and black. 416 pp, 8 unn leaves. Large 4to. Looser quires as issued in orig. illus. wrappers. – Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1928.

One of 350 numbered copies on Vergé d’Arches paper (+ 25 h.c.). The illustrations were printed by hand on the press of Marthe Fequet. Emile Bernard (1868–1941) was part of the Pont Aven circle around Gauguin. He is one of the main representative of Cloisonism and one of the founders of the French Symbolism. The astonishing illustrations to Saint François’ „Petites Fleurs“ were cut by himself into wood. – Carteret IV, 172 (“Belle édition recherchée et cotée“); Jentsch 18. – Spine ends of wrappers with some wear. Clean copy. – Best.-Nr. 20654