Logis de Terre: Pierre Lecuire Poèmes. Ardoises de Raoul Ubac
Ubac, Raoul. Lecuire, Pierre
Paris. (Marthe Fequet et Pierre Baudier for the Author). 1970
Pierre Lecuire's extraordinary poetic book construction illustrated with Raoul Ubac's beautiful slate engravings all printed on handmade Nepalese paper.
From the edition limited to 60 numbered copies (including ten hors commerce numbered in Roman numerals) on papier de Népal, signed by the author and the artist.
Also included, inserted loose, is an additional sheet of handmade Nepalese paper (505 x 296 mm unfolded), folded in three and featuring the printed text - it reproduces the original manuscript - of a ltter written to Lecuire by Francine del Pierre. del Pierre's letter details her emotions on hearing Lecuire's poem 'Cortège' read aloud by a mutual friend.
Inserted loose, is a this copy with a long letter by Lecuire written in pencil.
Also included is the original prospectus for the book, printed recto only on a sheet of matching handmade Nepalese paper folded in four to make a two-page booklet, with title, details of the edition to the central spread and the detail of Lecuire's imprint to the final leaf verso.
Lecuire's 'Logis de Terre' with Raoul Ubac's original 'estampages d'ardoises gravées' is printed on handmade Nepalese paper in a remarkable format: it opens and closes with bifolia but the opening bifolium is then followed by five multiply folded leaves (in the manner of a leporello) that feature Lecuire's verse. Ubac's slate engravings (as well as the final explanatory leaf with Latin text) are printed on small, page-sized leaves of the same paper each of which features the printed caption 'Ardoise I' to 'Ardoise VI'.
From the edition limited to 60 numbered copies (including ten hors commerce numbered in Roman numerals) on papier de Népal, signed by the author and the artist.
Also included, inserted loose, is an additional sheet of handmade Nepalese paper (505 x 296 mm unfolded), folded in three and featuring the printed text - it reproduces the original manuscript - of a ltter written to Lecuire by Francine del Pierre. del Pierre's letter details her emotions on hearing Lecuire's poem 'Cortège' read aloud by a mutual friend.
Inserted loose, is a this copy with a long letter by Lecuire written in pencil.
Also included is the original prospectus for the book, printed recto only on a sheet of matching handmade Nepalese paper folded in four to make a two-page booklet, with title, details of the edition to the central spread and the detail of Lecuire's imprint to the final leaf verso.
Lecuire's 'Logis de Terre' with Raoul Ubac's original 'estampages d'ardoises gravées' is printed on handmade Nepalese paper in a remarkable format: it opens and closes with bifolia but the opening bifolium is then followed by five multiply folded leaves (in the manner of a leporello) that feature Lecuire's verse. Ubac's slate engravings (as well as the final explanatory leaf with Latin text) are printed on small, page-sized leaves of the same paper each of which features the printed caption 'Ardoise I' to 'Ardoise VI'.
[2 bifolia + 5 multiply folded leaves + 7 leaves]. Large 8vo. (322 x 178 mm). Half-title, printed title, with Ubac's original slate engraving as frontispiece and 21 poems by Lecuire illustrated with five further original slate engravings, each numbered 'Ardoise I' (frontis.) to 'Ardoise VI', leaf with justification recto and copyright verso, leaf with copy number and the signatures of Lecuire and Ubac and final leaf, a single sheet, with explanatory text in Latin and dated 'MCMLXVIII' . Loose as issued in original publisher's plain folded paper wrappers, cream thick board slipcase.
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