Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Aretino, Pietro. Collot, André. L’oeuvre du Divin Aretin. Les Ragionamenti illustrés de gravures sur cuivre en couleurs. 4 vols.

Text within green frame. With 4 frontispieces, 50 full-page illus., and 6 head-pieces, all in colour etching by André Collot. 4to. Red half morocco with vertical vellum stripe showing a watercolor. Spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt (sign. J. Ogiez). Each volume in its slipcase. – Paris, Le Vasseur et Cie., 1933.

One of 400 numbered copies on vélin d’Arches of a total limited edition of 485 (+ XXV h.c.). André Collot (1897–1976) was one of the important illustrators of literary works in France in the 20th-century. – Engr. bookplate on flyleaf of each volume. Bindings slightly rubbed in parts due to draging in and out of slipcase. Inside fine. – Best.-Nr. 25186