Signed by Germaine de Coster
Heading: (Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de)
Author: De Coster, Germaine
Title: Buffon [28 textes choisis]
Place Published: [Paris]
Publisher:[Printed by Fe?quet et Baudi for the author]
Date Published: [1951]
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101, [6] pp. Text in French. Preface by Georges Duhamel. With 31 etchings by Germaine de Coster, including 28 in text and 3 full-page. (Folio) 44x29.5 cm (17¼x11¾"), loose quires in paper folder with French-fold hand-made paper jacket. All presented in publisher's drop-back box. No. 58 of an edition limited to 115 copies on Japon nacré.
Signed by Germaine de Coster at colophon. A handsome interpretation of the Comte de Buffon. Germaine de Coster (1895–1992) was a French printmaker who created this livre d'artiste for l'Exposition des Artistes du Livre in 1944.
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Heading: (Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de)
Author: De Coster, Germaine
Title: Buffon [28 textes choisis]
Place Published: [Paris]
Publisher:[Printed by Fe?quet et Baudi for the author]
Date Published: [1951]
Description:
101, [6] pp. Text in French. Preface by Georges Duhamel. With 31 etchings by Germaine de Coster, including 28 in text and 3 full-page. (Folio) 44x29.5 cm (17¼x11¾"), loose quires in paper folder with French-fold hand-made paper jacket. All presented in publisher's drop-back box. No. 58 of an edition limited to 115 copies on Japon nacré.
Signed by Germaine de Coster at colophon. A handsome interpretation of the Comte de Buffon. Germaine de Coster (1895–1992) was a French printmaker who created this livre d'artiste for l'Exposition des Artistes du Livre in 1944.
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