Bibermühle - Heribert Tenschert
Daudet, Alphonse (Author) - Dufy, Raoul (Illustrator) - De Coster, Germaine (Bookbinder) - Dumas, Hélène (Bookbinder) 
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Daudet, Alphonse (1840-1897). Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon. Paris, Scripta et picta, 1937. 207 p., with 107 original colour lithographs and 34 similar initials, all by Raoul Dufy (1877-1953). Large quarto (approx. 33 x 25 cm). Pearl grey and blue calf leather binding with richest morocco leather mosaic onlays, evoking a colourful harbour with ship masts and pavilions against a light blue sky over darker sea blue; light blue suede doublures, fawn flyleaves also of suede, gilt edges, half-leather chemise, slipcase, signed "G(ermaine) de Coster - H(élène) Dumas" - 1974.
One of the most joyful livres d’artiste: We present here Raoul Dufy's most important illustrated work in a unique copy: 74 pages of galley proofs with Dufy's own drawings, annotations, deletions and improvements (especially to the colours) are bound in at the end, making the production process fascinatingly transparent. No. 55 of 130 copies, without exception printed on Vélin de Rives. The stupendous binding by Germaine de Coster (the only one that she created for this book), one of her most astonishing achievements, is congenial to the text in its Provençal, Mediterranean lightness. In mint condition. Listed in de Coster's catalogue raisonné under no. 98, exhibited in the BN 1979. (This book was sold from our catalogue XV of 1984, no. 36 with illustration on back cover for CHF 68,000 and has now been reacquired). The 1937’s Tartarin de Tarascon – begun in 1931 – was the first important book illustrated by a painter with original lithographs in colour. The production time for this ambitious project totalled six years: Raoul Dufy drew 107 in-text compositions and 34 historiated initials for this book, which required the use of 385 stones: “a great technical challenge to the printers” (Garvey). On each page, the capital letters of the paragraphs are printed in a colour that matches the dominant colour of the illustration on the page. Carteret: « Belle publication moderne, la plus importante de l'artiste » Literature: Carteret IV, 133; Rauch 85; Garvey 94.
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