Aragon/L'Essai/Max Ernst/Paris, octobre-novembre 1975/Éditions Georges Visat, Paris [1976]

Published as a portfolio with a text in French by Louis Aragon and twenty-four prints, one each by Pierre Alechinsky, Arman, Enrico Baj, Hans Bellmer, Ben, César, William Copley, André Francoise, Haïm Kern, Wifredo Lam, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, André Masson, Sebastian Matta, Jean Messagier, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Bert-Johnny Nilsson, Meret Oppenhiem, Roland Penrose, Niki de Saint Phalle, Dorothea Tanning, Gérard Titus Carmel and Paul Wunderlich.

660 x 510mm: 56 partly numbered pages in 14 leaves of Arches in a folder of Arches with the author's name and L'Essai Max Ernst blind-stamped on the front, followed by l leaf of Arches blind-stamped Bonjour Max Ernst on the front, accompanying the twenty-four prints and 1 further leaf of Arches, all contained in a pale green linen-covered Solander box with a circular cut-out filled with a motif in off-white pressed paper representing a wall. The publisher's imprint on the front and the title on the spine are both blocked in pale grey.

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p.[5] half-title

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p.[7] title

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pp.9-[49] text

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p.[51] contents, edition, printed number, signature

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p.[i] blind-stamped

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p.[iii] secondary title page

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pls.[1-16] prints

pl.[17] CGM 342

pls.[18-24] prints

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p.[vii] edition, imprint, printed number

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The edition of 130 copies, signed in red felt-tipped pen on p. [51] by the author and numbered on pp.[51] and [vii], comprises:

100 copies numbered 1 to 100 with CGM 342 numbered 1/100 to 100/100

30 copies numbered I to XXX with CGM 342 numbered I/XXX to XXX/XXX.

CGM 342 is signed in pencil by the artist.

Text set in Caslon and printed by Fequet et Baudier, Paris.

CGM 342 was printed by Curwen Prints Ltd, London.