Un poème parfois son ombre en est un autre ... / Pascal Commère ; avec trois gravures sur bois de Petr Herel
- Bib ID:
- 7337364
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- Book
- Author:
- Commère, Pascal, 1951-, author
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- Losne ; [Canberra] : Thierry Bouchard [for Labyrinth Press], Mdcccc, lxxxcviii [1988]
- 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Summary:
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Pascal Commère, who was Petr Herel and Thierry Bouchard's collaborator on this book, is a contemporary French poet and novelist (and a close friend of Thierry Bouchard-they lived near each other in the Côte d'Or). The text, divided into two sections, was written between May and December 1983, after completion of the images. Anne Gray notes that in the deluxe edition, "One side of the bark suggests a joyous image of a flower crown, the other a less joyous crowned skull." She further notes that this imagery is reworked for the wood engraving for the copies of the ordinary edition on on ivory laid paper, which "embodies both the flower crown and the crowned skull, the two superimposed."
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- "Un poème parfois son ombre... par Pascal Commère a été tiré à soixante-dix sept exemplaires; tous accompagné de gravures sur bois de Petr Herel; les sept premiers sur Japon Misumi comportent un bois différent, tiré en couleurs et en trois états, sous ais de bois; les écorces d'eucalyptus ayant servi au tirage étant conservées en couverture; il a en outre été tiré soixante-dix exemplaires sur vergé ivoire avec une gravure sur bois debout tirée en noir; tous les exemplaires sont signés par l'auteur & par le peinture, et numérotés de I à VII et de 8 à 77. Achevé d'imprimer le 7 octobre 1987, et composé en Baskerville monotype de neuf, sur les presses de Thierry Bouchard à Losne, (Côte d'Or), et sur celles du peintre à Canberra pour la gravure. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz."-Colophon.
- "Numéro d'Éditeur: 66. D'Imprimeur: 146." Printed in 9 point Baskerville italic, completed 7 October 1987.
- Edition of 77 copies, the first 7 (numbered I to VII) on cream Japanese Kozo paper (Arakaji Misumi), each copy with two unique hand-tinted woodcuts and one unique hand-tinted counterproof, printed by Petr Herel, plus a double-sided piece of carved eucalyptus bark, the original source of the illustrations in each example, mounted to a sheet of kozo stored behind an aperture in the rear flap of the Arches vellum cover. These copies have wooden board covers, held together with two ribbon ties [36 unnumbered pages, 85 x 175 mm, in folder 185 x 92 mm, between boards 190 x 99 mm]. The remaining 70 copies (numbered 8 to 77) are printed on ivory laid paper with a different single wood engraving, printed by Thierry Bouchard [24 pages, in an Arches paper folder, 192 x 103 mm].
- National Library's SR 872 copy is no. VII of the deluxe edition, and is signed in pencil under the colophon by Petr Herel and Pascal Commère. It was donated in 2017 by Petr Herel. The SR 1013 copy of standard edition is unnumbered.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-531323064
- Cited In:
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- Labyrinth Press books 1980-2007 ; 5
- Bibliographie des livres imprimés en typographie de 1975 à 2006 par Thierry Bouchard sur ses presses de Losne, 158
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- Artists' books
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- In copyright. You may use the online copy for research or study; for other uses contact us.
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1988
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