ARTS ET METIERS GRAPHIQUES Whole number 68
1939WRCLIT72402Paris & New York 1939. Quarto. Decorated wrappers by Robert Clavel lithographed by Mourlot. Extensively illustrated with a number of plates and inserts hors-texte. Faint trace of dust darkening along spine small staple rust mark to rear wrapper otherwise unusually fine. Edited by Charles Peignot and André Lejard. The final issue of one of the premiere European periodicals devoted to the graphic arts and printing published between the wars 68 issues 1928-1939. This number features an original linocut by Matisse printed on vélin blanc and a woodcut by Henri Lespinasse. The first printed insert is Garcia Lorca's "Lettre à J. Bergamin" and other articles pertain to Diaghlev Marcel Bovis Rouault et al. The periodical fell victim to diminishing resources and increasing production costs as well as to the looming clouds of war. unknown books
