Les Ballades françaises, montagne, forêt, plaine,
                                mer

BEYOND ILLUSTRATION: THE LIVRE D'ARTISTE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Paul Fort: Les Ballades françaises, montagne, forêt, plaine, mer. [Lyon]: Cercle Lyonnais du Livre, 1927.

With fifty-two original colored wood engravings by François Schmied. One of 165 copies. Binding: designed by Paul Bonet, and executed in his workshop, 1933. Bound in full green calf, tooled in gold, this binding cased into an outer cover of five heavy horizontal bars of aluminum covered in royal blue levant. The bars of the outer cover are inlaid to the rear cover, the bars of the spine raised and lettered in palladium, the bars of the front cover swinging loose and lettered with title in aluminum letters inserted between each pair of bars. Size (binding): 26.1 x 21.1 cm.

Lilly Library call number: PQ2611 .O78 M75 1927 vault SL

Les Ballades françaises, montagne, forêt, plaine, mer

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