LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Fables. Paris: Tériade, 1952. 2 volumes. Folio. Illustrated with 91 etched and aquatint plates only (of 100). Loose as issued in original printed wrappers, glassine, cloth-backed board covers, slipcase, and acrylic box. Board covers rubbed and with one cover detached, box lacking lid, else fine. LIMITED EDITION, no 169 of 200 copies signed by Chagall. The plates were printed between 1927 and 1930, and, like the other Vollard project Les âmes mortes, languished until after the publisher's death. "With the illustrations of La Fontaine Chagall entered into an entirely new sphere of his graphic oeuvre" (Sweeney, Marc Chagall p 74). Artist and the Book 52.
LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Fables. Paris: Tériade, 1952. 2 volumes. Folio. Illustrated with 91 etched and aquatint plates only (of 100). Loose as issued in original printed wrappers, glassine, cloth-backed board covers, slipcase, and acrylic box. Board covers rubbed and with one cover detached, box lacking lid, else fine. LIMITED EDITION, no 169 of 200 copies signed by Chagall. The plates were printed between 1927 and 1930, and, like the other Vollard project Les âmes mortes, languished until after the publisher's death. "With the illustrations of La Fontaine Chagall entered into an entirely new sphere of his graphic oeuvre" (Sweeney, Marc Chagall p 74). Artist and the Book 52.
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