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ERNST Max (1891-1976) - MICHAUX Henri (1899-1984)

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ERNST Max (1891-1976) - MICHAUX Henri (1899-1984)

Slices of knowledge followed by the Secret of the Political Situation.
Bookstore "Les Pas perdus", collection "L'âge d'or", 1950.
In-16, fir-green morocco, dishes decorated with a large mosaic composition of black, beige and rosewood box set and decorated with cold-set and green oeser paste nets, back titled gold and decorated, mink-brown box guards, double guards of hand-painted kromekote paper, gold edges on witnesses preserved cover and back, matching shirt and bordered case (Micheline de Bellefroid, [1982]).
Original edition with green cover illustrated by Max ERNST. One of the 50 copies on vellum of the Marais Crèvecoeur, only large paper (#48).
Etching frontispiece by Max ERNST reserved for luxury copies, printed in black on vellum, justified 46/50 and signed in pencil.
REFERENCE Binding in Belgium in the 19th and 20th centuries. Exhibition organized by the Royal Society of Bibliophiles and Iconophiles of Belgium,
Brussels, Wittockiana, March-April 1985 (then at the Arsenal, Paris, May 1985), n° 137, reprod. pp. 221 and 226.
Rare and high quality copy with ERNST etching.