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JOSSO. DESCARTES.
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, chercher la vérité dans les sciences. Paris, La Tradition, 1947. In-4, 4-color box, red, chestnut, cream and black, forming on both boards a composition of 4 triangles opposed by their points, each decorated with mosaic circles that repeat the colors in alternation, the whole underlined by white and brown fillets and gilded listels, smooth spine decorated with multiple white and black fillets and bearing the author's name in gilt, the silver and black title, on a black mosaic piece, palladium edges on witnesses, red box lining edge to edge, with R. Adler's signature. Adler and owner's name on mosaic pieces, gray suede guard, brown paper double-guard sown with gilt dots, black half-box folder titled on spine, slipcase [Rose Adler] (minor rubbing to edges, stain to corner of spine fold and upper guard| spine of folder split and chipped, slipcase split and worn).
Edition decorated with 29 original burins by Camille-Paul Josso.
Limited edition of 420 copies on large Arches vellum: artist's copy without number but justified in pencil by Josso himself, with an autograph ex-dono signed by the same to Albert Malle. Enriched with a suite and an original drawing signed by Josso.
Dazzling original binding signed by Rose Adler, gilding by A. Jeanne, dated 1951.
This copy is also enriched with the binding model, composed of 3 tracings, 2 assembled boards and a piece of cardboard used as a template.
PROVENANCE: Albert Malle, collector and member of the Société de la Reliure originale, who was one of Rose Adler's patrons from 1933 to 1953 (name on back cover and ex-dono)| Maurice J. Lachard (by descent).
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, chercher la vérité dans les sciences. Paris, La Tradition, 1947. In-4, 4-color box, red, chestnut, cream and black, forming on both boards a composition of 4 triangles opposed by their points, each decorated with mosaic circles that repeat the colors in alternation, the whole underlined by white and brown fillets and gilded listels, smooth spine decorated with multiple white and black fillets and bearing the author's name in gilt, the silver and black title, on a black mosaic piece, palladium edges on witnesses, red box lining edge to edge, with R. Adler's signature. Adler and owner's name on mosaic pieces, gray suede guard, brown paper double-guard sown with gilt dots, black half-box folder titled on spine, slipcase [Rose Adler] (minor rubbing to edges, stain to corner of spine fold and upper guard| spine of folder split and chipped, slipcase split and worn).
Edition decorated with 29 original burins by Camille-Paul Josso.
Limited edition of 420 copies on large Arches vellum: artist's copy without number but justified in pencil by Josso himself, with an autograph ex-dono signed by the same to Albert Malle. Enriched with a suite and an original drawing signed by Josso.
Dazzling original binding signed by Rose Adler, gilding by A. Jeanne, dated 1951.
This copy is also enriched with the binding model, composed of 3 tracings, 2 assembled boards and a piece of cardboard used as a template.
PROVENANCE: Albert Malle, collector and member of the Société de la Reliure originale, who was one of Rose Adler's patrons from 1933 to 1953 (name on back cover and ex-dono)| Maurice J. Lachard (by descent).