Naples. Gravures de Bernard Buffet
Features
Author: Bernard Buffet
Publisher: [Imprimerie Daragnés]
Place of printing: Paris
Year of publication: 1959
Product Condition:
Copy in good condition, composed of 14 drypoints and folded sheets not collated enclosed in a cardboard jacket with title on the front cover: foxing on the covers, first leaves and cuts. Engravings protected by sheets of tissue paper. Pencil signature of Bernard Buffet on the colophon. The cardboard jacket is contained in a cardboard slipcase in fake wood with title on the spine: dust and dirt stains on the covers, humidity stains and a tiny adhesive label bearing the number 15 on the front cover, adhesive label on the lower spine bearing the indications of an auction, cuts on the spine. Introduction in Italian. Text in French.
Pages: 113
Format: In folio
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 38
Width: 28
Description
French writers visit Naples: thirteen portraits of the city and its magnificent surroundings, from Montesquieu to Valery Larbaud, passing through Charles de Brosses, Chateaubriand, Gérard de Nerval, Lamartine, Théophile Gautier, Stendhal, Dumas père, Baudelaire, Taine, Anatole France, Gide. The pages are illustrated by 14 dry tips by Bernard Buffet. At the Colophon: This ouvrage, printed on the pages of the Saint-Gobain Company, for the inauguration of the Caserta ice cream shop, composed in the main in Baskerville corps 24, is illustrated by Bernard Buffet in 14 paragraphs. The printing of engravings and typographies was carried out by the Daragnès Imprimerie with 300 examples numbered from 1 to 300 on paper according to the Arches line. It was printed on Friday 30 October 1959. Exemplary n. 267. Artist's signature on the colophon. Preface by Gino Doria
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