FRENAUD (André). Poems from Brandenburg. With six color-engr - Lot 164

FRENAUD (André). Poems from Brandenburg. With six color-engraved compositions by Jacques Villon. P., N.R.F., 1947. In-4, midnight blue, both covers with a composition of juxtaposed shapes in mosaics of garnet, navy blue and dark green box covered with oblique fillets of light colors: yellow, blue, pink, green and gray, beige box lining and endpapers, gilt on witnesses, cons. cover and spine, midnight blue maroq. spine folder, lined slipcase (P.-L. Martin). ISSUE OF 190 COPIES, all on Marais wove paper. ONE OF 20 HEAD EXEMPLIES (no. 2), containing a SUITE A PART DES GRAVURES, black proofs on Japon mince. Poems of captivity illustrated with 6 original color etchings by Jacques Villon (Auberty et Perussaux, 367 to 372), 5 of which are full-page etchings on Les Rois Mages. EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLE, IN SUPERB DECORATED BINDING BY P.-L. MARTIN, with dedication by Villon, who also signed all the etchings, both in black and in color, and to which an original pen-and-ink drawing, signed for one of the illustrations, has been added.