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Fernand Léger. La fin du monde filmée par l’ange N.-D. (The End of the World, as Filmed by the Angel of Notre-Dame)

Fernand Léger

La fin du monde filmée par l’ange N.-D. (The End of the World, as Filmed by the Angel of Notre-Dame)

Published 1919 (additional materials c. 1918–19); rebound 1950

Book with twenty-two pochoirs (designs by Léger), six with line-block reproductions of drawings; text in letterpress, line block, and pochoir; publisher’s original paper cover. Rebound with additional preparatory materials: maquette of the entire book printed in line block and letterpress (without pochoir) and four additional proofs of individual illustrations, one with corrections in ink and gouache. Bespoke rebinding, slipcase, and chemise by Bonet. Rebinding: covers of full dark-blue goat leather over boards with multicolor calf-leather onlays and inlays, blind and gold tooling, and gold-tooled title on spine; red-and-green suede-and-leather doublures and flyleaves; dark-blue silk endbands; gilt edges

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Author Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Sauser)
Book binder Paul Bonet (rebinding)
Publisher Éditions de la Sirène, Paris [Paul Laffitte]
Medium Book with twenty-two pochoirs (designs by Léger), six with line-block reproductions of drawings; text in letterpress, line block, and pochoir; publisher’s original paper cover. Rebound with additional preparatory materials: maquette of the entire book printed in line block and letterpress (without pochoir) and four additional proofs of individual illustrations, one with corrections in ink and gouache. Bespoke rebinding, slipcase, and chemise by Bonet. Rebinding: covers of full dark-blue goat leather over boards with multicolor calf-leather onlays and inlays, blind and gold tooling, and gold-tooled title on spine; red-and-green suede-and-leather doublures and flyleaves; dark-blue silk endbands; gilt edges
Dimensions pages: 12 11/16 × 9 15/16 in. (32.3 × 25.2 cm) (approx.); book (closed): 13 1/16 × 10 7/8 × 1 in. (33.1 × 27.6 × 2.5 cm)
Printer of plates Richard, Paris (pochoir)
Printer of text l’Imprimerie Frazier-Soye, Paris
Edition 1,225. Twenty-five numbered 1–25 on Rives paper; 1,200 numbered 26–1,225 on Lafuma paper. This copy no. 18
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 495.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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