Marcoussis, Louis

Planches de salut.  Dix gravures à l'eau forte et au bruin.  Préface de Tristan Tzara.  Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1931



Oblong 4to (12 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.; 324 x 400 mm).  13 fine etchings with engraving including frontispiece, head- and tailpieces, and 10 numbered plates (which are signed in the plate), printed by Roger Lacourère on chine and mounted on Arches, text printed by Ducros et Colas, tissue-guards; minimal wear.  Publisher's printed wrappers and glassine; minimal wear.  Publisher's portfolios for  additional suites of plates; soiled, torn.

Heinrich Stinnes (signature and inscription on front free endpaper, acquired from the publisher 28 June 1931)

Artist & the Book 186; The Cubist Print p. 133; Rauch 167  

Oblong 4to (12 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.; 324 x 400 mm). 13 fine etchings with engraving including frontispiece, head- and tailpieces, and 10 numbered plates (which are signed in the plate), printed by Roger Lacourère on chine and mounted on Arches, text printed by Ducros et Colas, tissue-guards; minimal wear. Publisher's printed wrappers and glassine; minimal wear. Publisher's portfolios for additional suites of plates; soiled, torn.
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Exemplaire de tête.  Copy 1 on japon impérial, signed by Marcoussis and with extra suites of plates (of a whole edition of 77). 

Each plate is included in all its states in an extra suite comprising 42 plates, all numbered and signed by Marcoussis.  The number of states for each illustration varies from 1 to 5.  In addition another suite of the plates in their final state is included, each signed and numbered 1/11.  These accompanied the 11 copies on japon impérial.  In addition, a set of cancelled plates, all signed, is present.

Planches de salut is one of the most delightful of all Cubist illustrated books.  The artist illustrates quotations by favorite authors, including Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Hölderlin, Rimbaud, and Apollinaire.