FERRAND (Louis). - Lot 238

FERRAND (Louis). Les Bois gravés Chalonnais à Châlon sur Saône by J. Renaux in 1973. In-folio in havana half cloth, marbled paper boards and title-piece pasted on center front cover, of XXXV, 107 pp. Limited edition of 500 copies and a few Hors Commerce. This one is numbered 16. Trilingual text. 104 full-page reproductions, including a few double-page ones, 74 of which printed on the original woodcuts; the remainder, printed on yellow paper, reproduce woodcuts dispersed from 1929 onwards. Text by Louis Ferrand, prints on the original woodcuts. Exhibition at the Musée Denon in Châlon, France, in April and June 1973, presenting the exceptional collection of woodcuts from Châlon, a collection unique in France, as it has been preserved almost in its entirety in the original printing works for several centuries. A very fine copy.