Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Bernard, Emile. Bernard, Emile. Le juif errant. Poème en vingt chants.

With 21 orig. hand-coloured wood-cuts by Emile Bernard, printed on china paper and mounted on plates. 290 pp. Small 4to. Red full morocco over 3 raised bands with gilt tooled illus. on front board. Orig. printed wrappers bound in. In matching slipcase. – Tonnerre, Michel-Ange Bernard, 1927 (on front wrapper: 1928).

„La Divine Epopée“, vol. II. Unnumbered copy out of a total limited edition of 250, hand-printed in the years 1927/28 by Editions de la Rénovation Esthétique (M.-A. Bernard). The unique copy we could trace with hand-coloured woodcuts and with an extra suite of the cuts, here laid in an envelope bound-in at the end. Emile Bernard (1868–1941), friend of Paul Cèzanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, wrote his present version of this famous legend during the war year 1914–1918. It was his son Michel-Ange who printed the text as well as the original cuts in 1927/28. The binding is a masterwork by the little known Zurich artist bookbinder Max Kaufmann, created in 1933 for a local collector Titus Vasella. Bookbinder’s invoice to Vasella laid in. – Fine copy, unique with the coloured cuts and the extra suite. – Best.-Nr. 20997