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Gaston Bachelard.
Chateaux en Espagne.
Paris: Cercle Grolier / Les Amis du Livre Moderne, 1957.
A gorgeous and fascinating livre d’artiste. Bachelard’s reflections on prints and printmaking, illustrated with 16 EXTREMELY FINE SURREALIST BURIN ENGRAVINGS BY ALBERT FLOCON, plus a seventeenth engraving that depicts the other sixteen in miniature. Edition limited to 200 copies printed on fine Rives wove paper. This is copy 92, printed for bibliophile Pierre Meunié. 4to. Loose as issued in original wraps (with the front cover adorned with an engraving). In the original chemise and slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS.
