Rimbaud: Une Saison en Enfer. Les Déserts de l'Amour. Les Illuminations

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Rimbaud: Une Saison en Enfer. Les Déserts de l'Amour. Les Illuminations

Artist Germaine Richier (French, 1904-1959)

Publisher André Gonin, Lausanne, 1951

Printer text: André Kundig, with Auguste Griess, Geneva etchings : Reynold Disteli, Geneva

Author Arthur Rimbaud (French, 1854-1891)

Date1951

DimensionsSlipcase: H: 16 9/16 in. (420 mm); W: 12 in. (305 mm); Depth: 2 5/16 in. (58 mm).
Chemise: H: 16 in. (407 mm); W: 11 3/4 in. (299 mm); Depth: 1 3/4 in. (45 mm).
Book: H: 15 1/2 in. (394 mm); W: 11 3/4 in. (299 mm); Depth: 1 9/16 in. (39 mm).
Page: H: 15 in. (381 mm); W: 11 1/2 in. (292 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 24 etchings with aquatint. Text: letterpress in black with red (typeface: Garamond). Paper: cream laid handmade pure rag Auvergne (watermarks: "AUVERGNE A LA MAIN" and a "Fleur de Lis").

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.1008

Not on View

Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 260, repr.,1961

cf. Strachan, W. J., The Artist and the Book in France; The 20th Century livre d'artiste, New York, 1969, p. 341.