//, Literature, Books/Nelly et Jean [i.e. Marcel Valotaire]. Nous deux: Simples papiers du tiroir secret / [ornée de gravures originales par Jean Dulac] (2 volumes). — Gravé and imprimé pour les auteurs et leurs amis [Paris: s.n., 1929].

Nelly et Jean [i.e. Marcel Valotaire]. Nous deux: Simples papiers du tiroir secret / [ornée de gravures originales par Jean Dulac] (2 volumes). — Gravé and imprimé pour les auteurs et leurs amis [Paris: s.n., 1929].

Description: Two volumes 23.1 x 14.9 cm each, collated in 4to, uniformly bound in French flapped wrappers with the title and an engraved vignette, coloured; wrapped in glassine; cased in a cardboard chemise (23.1 x 15 cm) with a diaper of two hearts pierced by an arrow, in pink; and both volumes cased in a slipcase (23.8 x 15.2 cm) with the same diaper. Printed on unpaginated dense wove paper watermarked ‘Arches’, engravings with clear plate marks. Illustrations are by Jean Dulac.

Title-page (double-fillet frame, black and red in manuscript) Nelly et Jean | – | nous deux | simples | papiers | du|  tiroir secret | {vignette} | Première partie (Deuxième partie) | – | Gravé | et imprimé | pour les auteurs | et leurs amis ||

Vol. 1: 1 blank, π4 (blank, h.t., frontis., engr. t.p.), 1-84, [2 blanks]; total 39 leaves with 19 hand-coloured burin engravings, incl. wrapper, frontis., and t.p. Unpag.

Vol. 2: 1 blank, π4 (blank, h.t., frontis., engr. t.p.), 1-114, [1 colophon] [2 blanks], total 52 leaves with 27 hand-coloured burin engravings, incl. wrapper, frontis., and t.p. Unpag.

Limitation: total print run of 295 copies of which 12 (№№ 1-12) on Japon Impérial, 13 on Vélin d’Arches (№№ 13-25), 30 on Japon Impérial (№№ 26-55) and 240 on Vélin d’Arches (№№ 56-295); this is copy № 97 on Vélin d’Arches.

Contributors:

Marcel Valotaire (French, 1889 – 1979) – author.

Jean Dulac (French, 1902 – 1968) – artist.

Printed by Coulouma (Argenteuil) and Vernant (Paris).

The same title with illustrations by Gaston de Sainte-Croix was published in 1956:  LIB-2880.2021.

SKU: LIB-3128.2023 Categories: , ,

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