Picasso

Dessins

by Waldemar George 

First edition, in French.  Paris:  Éditions des Quatres Chemins, 1926 

Softback is overall in GOOD condition.

• Cream coverstock wraps have buff paper overwrap with title label printed in brown ink. 
• Wraps show some chips, edgewear.   Overwrap shows staining, all turn-in flaps are detached, edges have closed tears, chips, edgewear.  Corners are softened.  See photos.  
• Spine is missing.  
• Binding is largely disbound, some signatures retain their stitches.  See photos.  
• Feps have some edgewear, are toned, have a gift inscription. 
• Illustrations are bright and clear, plates have marginal age-toning. 
• Forty-seven plates present of the sixty-four included in the edition.  Plates missing:  17, 18, 21, 23-26, 28, 30, 37, 40, 41, 44-46, 48, 54.
• Interior exhibits marginal toning, some smudges, light edgewear, a couple closed tears.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have some unopened edges along head. 
• PS2025.1008

15 pages + 47 plates. 8.25 x 10.25 inches

Cardboard wraps with paper jacket and title label.  Text on pages 5-15, 47 black and white plates, numbered on the verso, table of collections for the plates at rear.  Some text pages uncut at head.  Internally Good+, with marginal toning to sheets.  Spine is missing, text block is disbound, with some gatherings retaining their stitching.  Condition overall is AS IS Good, with missing plates.  Text in French.

Waldemar George (1893-1970), the influential Parisian art critic, approached Picasso with the idea of reproducing some of the famed artist's work in book form.  The result was this book: Picasso, Dessins.  It includes works by Picasso then owned by Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenberg, Alphonse Kahn and others, plus unpublished works.  The plates testify to the masterful output of Picasso from 1905-1925.  Printed by the notable French firm of Ducros et Colas, this book is a wonderful example not only of Picasso’s early work but of French book printing in the 1920s.

Inscribed on the front free end paper, "To Ellis -- An indulgence of his decorative (shall we say) nature from that staunch detractor.  Dick.  10/18/36"

Of this First Edition, 100 numbered copies were printed on Arches Vellum paper and issued with an original lithograph by Picasso.  This copy is NOT one of the edition of 100. 

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