Marcel Vertès, Janet Flanner. The Stronger Sex as Seen by Vertès. — New York: The Hyperion Press, 1941.

Large folio album, 464 × 360 mm. Publisher’s original light cloth boards with printed title and colour vignette to front cover, grey printed frame; grey lettering to spine; in a cardboard slipcase. Pink endpapers at front and rear. Collation: [56] leaves, unpaginated, comprising 8 leaves of preliminaries (incl. the first blank) and text with in-text black illustrations; 24 caption leaves, each preceding a plate; and 24 leaves with mounted hand-colored lithographs within printed frames. Plates printed by the Creative Printmakers Group. Text set in Caslon.

Place/Date: New York, September 1941
Publisher: The Hyperion Press of New York
Printer: Duenewald Printing Corporation / Creative Printmakers Group
Paper: Special paper made by Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons
Language: English
Edition: Limited edition of 1,750 copies; this copy numbered 468

Title-page: THE STRONGER SEX | AS SEEN BY | VERTÈS | TEXT BY | JANET FLANNER | NEW YORK | THE HYPERION PRESS ||

Limitation: This album was edited by André Gloeckner and was published in a limited edition of one thousand seven hundred and fifty copies by the Hyperion Press of New York in September 1941. The text was set in Caslon. The hand-coloured plates were printed by the Creative Printmakers Group. The paper was specially made by Henry Lindenmayer & Sons. Printing and binding by the Duenewald Printing Corporation.

Inprint: Printed in the United States of America; Copyright 1941 by The Hyperion Press of New York.

Provenance: Presentation inscription on half-title: “À Lily Daché, que j’admire et que j’aime beaucoup. Marcel Vertès, 1941, N.Y.C.”

Catalogue Raisonné: Vokaer № 41, p. 17.

Contributors:
Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist
Flanner, Janet (American, 1892–1978) – author, text
Gloeckner, André (French-American, 1901–1986) – editor
Daché, Lilly (American, c. 1892–1989) – presentee