Idylles et Elégies. Pointes sèches originales de André Michel.

Editions de la Cité, Paris, 1945

A beautifully designed and produced edition with with 18 original drypoint etchings by André Michel (1900–1972). No. 232 of a limited edition of 275 copies.

Description: Folded sheets loosely inserted in a glassine-wrapped portfolio; housed in a pull-off box of quarter morocco and paper-covered boards; the box with a rounded spine. Quarto: 34 × 28 cm; pp. 138, [1].

Condition: The spine of the box is slightly faded and the glassine is somewhat darkened due to age. Otherwise in very good condition.

Notes: André Marie de Chénier was a French poet and journalist born in Constantinople on 30 October 1762 and executed by guillotine in Paris on 25 July 1794 at the age of 31. His oeuvre includes rewrites of ancient poems, philosophical and political poems characterised by the period of the French Revolution.