Full Vellum
1916 · Paris
by Willette, Adophe, texte et dessins de
Paris: Devambrez, 1916. Limited Edition. Full Vellum. Near Fine. A unique copy with one autographed manuscript page and two original watercolor compositions, one on the front cover vellum, and the other serviing as a frontis. These special features are over and above being one of 300 copies in the limitation. 4to. 23.5 by 18.5 cm. Unpaginated (the notebook of which this is a facsimile reproduction, had a few early leaves paginated). 54 leaves with content, often front and back but sometimes just the recto. Virtually all the color illustration is on the rectos, and almost every recto has a full page color illustration, or a color illustration which dominates the page. The facing versos have most of the newspaper clippings, shorter commentary, sometimes letters, an occasional vignette. Scarce -- OCLC First Search identified just two institutions with holdings of the hard copy of the book. Cover is soiled and foxed, yet painting comes through still vibrant, bright, vivid.
(Inventory #: 007546)