Unbound, unpaginated volume in illustrated French flapped wrappers, 360 x 270 mm, printed on mother-of-pearl Japanese paper, collated 15⁴ + 14², 60+28, 44 leaves in-folio, folded in half, profusely illustrated with original colour lithograph, in a grey cloth clamshell box (390 x 290 x 90 mm) with inside pocket for CD (lacking), embossed vignette to front; limited edition of 284 copies, signed copy № 59 of 50 copies printed on Japon Nacré paper numbered 30-80. Includes 13 double-page colour plates signed by the artist, enriched with an original watercolour drawing on the back of the title-page, with autograph dedication “A Monsieur et Madame Kuhn Amicalement A Bonnefoit“.

Title-page (black and sanguine): GEORGES BRASSENS | VÉNUS | CALLIPYGE | Préface de Pierre Louki | Lithographies originales de | Alain BONNEFOIT | ÉDITIONS LATOUR – MARTIGNY ||

Colophon : Achevé d’imprimer | le 8 novembre 1993 | sur les presses de Pierre Jean Mathan | Boulogne-sur-Seine. | Les lithographies ont été tirées | dans les ateliers de Jean-Claude Perrin | Arts-Litho à Paris. | L’emboitage est de Piero Dallai | à Forence. ||

Deluxe edition of a collection of 13 songs by Brassens, illustrated with more than thirty original lithographs by Alain Bonnefoit,

Contributors:

Alain Bonnefoit (French, b. 1937) – artist

Georges Brassens (French, 1821 – 1981) – author poetry

Louki, Pierre (French, 1920 – 2006) – author preface

Éditions Latour (Martigny) – publisher

Pierre Jean Mathan (Boulogne-sur-Seine) – printer

Jean-Claude Perrin, Arts-Litho (Paris) – lithorgapher

Piero Dallai (Forence) – slipcase