Marc Dautry - Sonnets Michel-Ange - 1973

Michelangelo's Sonnets
DAUTRY (Marc)
Georges RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNE - engraving tools and original wood by Marc DAUTRY

Paris, Éditions d'Art Les Heures Claires, 1973
1973

Limited Edition of 280 copies: our No. 193, on large Arches vellum.

Large and sturdy in-4 (38 x 28.2 cm) in sheets of 141 + (19) pages.
Green case with a gold design in the center of the plates, the inside of the case lined with suede leather (the color of the back raffia is uniformly raffia-colored, the covers are rather tinted in green/golden yellow).

Book cover in dirty white, spine titled in dark hollow red.
Edition of 300 copies, one of 180 on beautiful Arches vellum paper of large size — Sixteen original etchings by Marc Dautry, including a large view of Florence on a double page, plus numerous wood engravings.
Large composition at the top of each sonnet and a capital letter at the beginning of each text presented in Italian and French.

Excellent copy, clean and fresh pages, untouched sheets, strong binding.
A stain is reported on the front plate.