PIGNON (Édouard) - VALÉRY (Paul). - Lot 121

PIGNON (Édouard) - VALÉRY (Paul). Dialogue de l'arbre. [Paris: Bernard Klein, 1958]. - In-folio, 380 x 282: (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 68 pp. (4 ff. last 2 blanks), illustrated cover. Edition of 290 copies, illustrated with 27 compositions by painter Édouard PIGNON (1905-1993), including 7 etchings and aquatints in the artist's hand (cover, frontispiece and 5 on double page), and 20 woodcuts in the text. A chapel copy, on Arches vellum, from the Pierre Bouchet collection, who printed the text on his own presses. It is absolutely unique, enriched with the following items: - Color suite with six double-page plates - different from those in the book -, a portrait of Pignon and a figure of Tityre's goat on the cover. - Bistre suite of 20 woodcuts on Hollande laid paper. - 15 original drawings, including one on tracing paper, for the woodcut illustrations, with printer's annotations. - Original 28-page layout, with cut-outs and 7 original drawings. - A trial proof of the frontispiece. - Proof of 4 original engravings by Pignon, not retained for publication, including one on japon, all signed by the artist in the plate. - L.A.S. from J. Ruat to Pierre Jean Mathan, January 20, 1963, 2 pages in-12. A very well preserved copy. Provenance: Pierre Bouchet.