JACQUEMIN (André) - BRILLAT-SAVARIN (Jean Anthelme). - Lot 108

JACQUEMIN (André) - BRILLAT-SAVARIN (Jean Anthelme). Physiology of taste or meditations on transcendental gastronomy. A theoretical, historical and topical work dedicated to Parisian gastronomes by a professor and member of several literary and learned societies. Typeset by Pierre Bouchet. Paris : Flammarion, 1951. -2 volumes in-4, 325 x 251: (6 ff. 4 first blanks), XXXVIII pp., (1 f.), 228 pp., (12 ff. 3 last blanks), illustrated cover; (6 ff. 3 first blanks), 263 pp., (14 ff. 4 last blanks), illustrated cover. Leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. One of the finest illustrated works by André JACQUEMIN (1904-1992), printed in an edition of 245 copies on vélin pur fil du Marais, decorated with 168 original drypoints by the artist, including one on each cover, 2 full-page and the others in the text. Jacquemin had this to say about the work: "Henri Flammarion, who had entrusted me with the illustration of "La Naissance du jour" ten years earlier, came back to me with a major project: to illustrate Brillat-Savarin's "Physiologie du goût". It was a work of magnificent style, a manifesto of culinary art and the pleasures of the table, and a delicious collection of the memoirs of an illustrious 19th-century chef. It was my longest battle: five years of work, one hundred and sixty-eight dry points. In addition to evoking products, dishes and terroirs, I decided to engrave the great figures of the gastronomy of my time: Curnonsky, Edmond Chaix, Doctor de Pomiane, Fernand Point." A portrait of Colette can be added to the list of people represented by Jacquemin. One of 200 copies numbered 21 to 220 (no. 100), from the collection of Pierre Bouchet. It was enriched with the following pieces: - 4 L.A.S. from Jacquemin to Pierre Bouchet, 16 pages in various formats, concerning the publication. - Jacquemin's autograph manuscript, 4 pages in-4, giving the dimensions of all the book's illustrations. - 3 handwritten mock-ups of the title. - 3 original pencil drawings, signed by Jacquemin, two of which are dedicated, one to Madame Bouchet (Cerisier), the other to Pierre Bouchet (a Saint-Pierre). The third drawing shows a woman's face in profile. - Bon à tirer for the full-page engraving in the second volume, justified and signed by the artist, and countersigned by Flammarion. - Papeterie Arches greeting cards for 1951, illustrated with an etching by Jacquemin. A very well preserved copy. Provenance: Pierre Bouchet.