Slimane Ben Ibrahim Bamer / Etienne Binet - Mirage scènes de la vie Arabe - 2008

( Dinet Etienne )
Mirages. Scènes de la vie Arabe, commentées par Slimane Ben Ibrahim Bamer.
Paris: art edition H. Piazza - Les heures claires ( 2008 ), editor binding in mohair sheep crossed full skin, decoration of arabesques in colour on the plates, beige leather medallion decorated with a chiseled face in the centre of the first plate, ornate ribbed spine, golden head, uncropped, edge, case.
Edition printed in 400 copies on 250 gram bank vellum paper, illustrated with the reproduction of Etienne Dinet's 54 colour compositions first published in 1906.
One of the 230 copies without suites in new condition.
The decoration of the binding and the central medallion are the work of Michel Vincent in tribute to the bookbinder Charles Meunier, binder of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The book is presented in a leather-lined case dressed in an original handmade paper, reserved for this exclusive edition.
Numbered copy 189 / 400 copies containing the text and the final state of the illustrations, format 24.5 x 20.5 centimetres, 230 pages, superb print.