Title page (blue and black): RENE BOYLESVE |
LA |
LEÇON D'AMOUR |
DANS UN PARC |
ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS | DE |
BRUNELLESCHI | PARIS |
ÉDITIONS ALBIN MICHEL | 22, RUE HUYGHENS (14
e) ||
Pagination: [6] 1-173 [174] [4], total 184 pages, ils.
Collation: publisher’s pictorial wrappers with 2 blank leaves – front and back, π
2 (h.t. / justification, t.p. / blank), 87 leaves of text, [1] colophon / blank, total 92 leaves plus 21 plates, incl. frontispiece.
Binding: 33.5 x 26 cm; original flapped wrappers, blue fountain and lettering to front, lettering to spine, back blank, in a marbled buckram folder (33.5 x 27 cm) with lettered paper label to spine; printed on Arches wove paper, margins untrimmed.
Illustrations: 42 vignettes, tail- and headpieces in color, frontispiece and 20 plates after watercolours and gouaches by Umberto Brunelleschi printed in black and stencil-coloured (au pochoir) on the 18
th of November 1933 at R. Coulouma press (Argenteuil), Jacomet press and Padovani press.
Contributors:
René Boylesve [Tardiveau] (French, 1867 – 1926) – author.
Umberto Brunelleschi (Italian, 1879 – 1949) – artist.
Daniel Jacomet (French, b. 1894 – ?) – printer.
Imprimerie Coulouma (Argenteuil),
Robert Coulouma (French, 1887-1976) – printer.
Éditions Albin Michel (Paris) ;
Albin Michel (French, 1873 – 1943) – publisher.
First edition of René Boylesve's novel
La Leçon d’amour dans un parc was conducted in Paris by Éditions de la Revue Blanche, in 1902.
Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique.