['Verve']. [CHAGALL, Marc]

Verve. Revue artistique et littéraire. Volume VI, No 24 ['Contes de Boccace' (cover title)]

Paris, Éditions de la revue 'Verve', 1950.

Large quarto, [72] pages with 26 full-page black and white illustrations by Marc Chagall facing 26 small tipped-in colour reproductions of miniatures from a celebrated illuminated manuscript.

Papered boards with the colour-pictorial dustwrapper (with flaps on all edges tipped together, securing it in place around the cover); title page foxed, with occasional light scattered foxing elsewhere; minimal signs of use and age; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little rubbed, marked and foxed, with minor loss near the head and foot of the spine.

'Le présent numéro de "Verve" contient les lavis que Marc Chagall a composés pour illustrer des Contes du Décameron de Boccace et les peintures sur le meme thème du Manuscrit des Ducs de Bourgogne ... Marc Chagall a exécuté la couverture de cet ouvrage'.