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L’Ode à Picasso : poëme 1917: PB 1-2006

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

L’Ode à Picasso : poëme 1917

Maker(s)

Author: Cocteau, Jean
Publisher: La Belle Edition
Printer: Bernouard, François

Categories

Place(s) associated

  • Paris

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2005-12) by Executors of the Estate of the late Quentin Keynes

Dating

Production date: AD 1917

Note

Colophon: "Achevé de composer and d’imprimer pour la première fois le 5 février 1919 sur les presses de François Bernouard (imprimeur-libraire) 71, Rue des Saints-Pères Paris". Woodcut publisher’s device on t.p Text pages within red borders; divisional titles printed in open-face types filled in by hand in red ink. "Cette édition est restreinte à: 3 exemplaires sur Chine ... numérotés de 1 à 3; 10 exemplaires sur Japon acien ... numérotés de 4 à 13; 300 exemplaires sur Vergé d’Arches, numérotés de 14 à 313; plus 26 exemplaires, faits avec des feuilles casse´es, mis hors commerce, et lettrés de A à Z" - half-title page verso. Museum has copy no. 22. Presentation copy. Inscription on half-title: "Souvenir | de Jean Cocteau | à | Miss Kate Buss; half-title blind stamped with address. Bound in later red morocco (5 raised bands on spine), the original printed wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper titled in an open-face type filled by hand in red.

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 1-2006
Primary reference Number: 125579
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 30 September 2019 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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