['Verve']. [BONNARD, Pierre]

Verve. Revue artistique et littéraire. Volume V, Nos 17 et 18 ['Couleur de Bonnard']

Paris, Éditions de la revue 'Verve', 1947.

Large quarto, [84] pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour, some double-page) plus the frontispiece (an original colour lithograph, 'Le Soleil') and illustrated dustwrapper, with all artwork by Pierre Bonnard.

Flush-cut plain boards with the colour-pictorial dustwrapper (featuring full-colour wrap-around artwork, with flaps on all edges tipped together, securing it in place around the cover); stitching a little loose; small light tidemark to the foot of the gutter throughout; trifling signs of use and age; dustwrapper a little worn at the extremities, with the ends of the spine and one corner now stabilized with small pieces of clear tape; overall, a very good copy.

'Le présent numéro de "Verve" réunit des oeuvres inédites de Pierre Bonnard éxecutées pendant ces quinze dernières années. L'Artiste en a compose la couverture, le frontispice ... et tous les ornements au cours de l'Automne 1946' (verso of the title page).