BRACQUEMOND (Félix).
♦ Study on woodcutting and lithography. Paris, Printed for Henri Beraldi, 1897. Large in-8, eggplant morocco, jansenist, tan morocco lining set with a gilt fillet, brocaded silk endpapers, gilt edges, cover (Noulhac).
First edition of this plea for woodcutting, opposed to photographic junk, gillotage and pinning.
Bracquemond ends his work as follows: When one wants beautiful books, decorated with beautiful drawings in typographic agreement with the text, it will be necessary to ask them, again and again, to woodcut, to real woodcut. A curious profession of faith from the great aquafortist!
Edition at 138 numbered copies, this one offered by Henri Beraldi to Adolphe Bordes.
Bound in doubled morocco by Noulhac, decorated with a nice brocaded silk for the endpapers.
