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12 beautiful original compositions engraved on copper with color identification including half-titled cover, title vignette, inset frontispiece, justification of the print run, 1 full-page, 1 header and 5 in-text, finished with to print.
Total edition of 500 copies. One of the 300 numbered on Arches vellum (n°483), enriched with a monochrome suite on vellum.
Great refinement of the edition, bright colors of the page borders, headbands, tailpieces, color engravings with identification on copper, out of text.
Compositions drawn by Porcaboeuf and Leblanc and Trautmann.
Paperback, printed cover illustrated in color and folded. Case. - Excellent condition.
Dialogue between SOCRATES, PHEDRES, ERYXIMAQUES, on the virtues of the dancing body, its expressions, its poetics, and the way in which the soul and philosophy pass through movement.
Paul Valéry / Edouard Léon / Javal and Bourdeaux
Soul and dance. Compositions by Edouard Leon
Paris, Javal and Bourdeaux, 1926
In-4 (23 x 28.5 cm); 59pp. 1f. + Next
Subject: Paul Valery Soul and Dance ill. Edouard Leon Javal Bourdeaux no. 1926 Bibliophilia 67508459
