1 OF 10 COPIES ON JAPAN-PAPER

LAURENCIN, MARIE.

Petit bestiaire. Poèmes inédits par Marie Laurencin avec deux lithographies inédites de l'auteur.

Paris, François Bernouard, 1926.

Large 4to (329 x 252mm). Bound in a very nice blue full morocco binding with five raised bands. Inner boards in green morocco with round flower ornamentation stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Binding by Pierre Picard (stamped in gilt to lower part of verso of front board). Front and back free end-papers in golden-green silk. Spine with wear and miscoloured. Inner back hindge with wormtract. Internally very fine and clean. With two lithographs by Marie Laurencin in two states; one black and one sanguine. Housed in accompanying slipcase. 
Copy no 5 of 10 copies on Japan-paper from a total edition of 151.

First edition of this luxury edition with unpublished poems by artist Marie Laurencin; a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. Copy no 5 of 10 copies on Japan-paper from a total edition of 151.

Order-nr.: 60091