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2 pieces of advertising (4 unnumbered pages each) + 1 blank subscription form inside paper cover (4 unnumbered pages) : 1 color illustration ; 25 cm
Promotional packet inviting subscriptions to a limited edition of 265 copies of Bestiaire, a collection of Simon Bussy's paintings of animals with texts by Francis de Miomandre. The published book is described (in French) as a large deluxe quarto volume (25 x 32.5 cm) printed in two colors, with twelve paintings, tailpieces, cover reproduced with stencils by the illuminator J. [Jean] Saudé. The 265 exemplars are distrubed as follows: 15 on japan imperial paper (of which 5 are not for sale), 50 on Holland V.G.Z. paper (of which 10 are not for sale), and 200 on Arches paper.
images de Simon Bussy ; proses de Francis de Miomandre.
Color stencil on page [3] of cover; was the cover illustration for the published volume.
The advertising also includes "Livret de folastries" by Pierre de Ronsard, Le città del silenzio by Gabriele d'Annunzio, La prophétie de Cazotte by La Harpe, and Laudes by Armand Godoy, as well the Bestiaire.