SIMA (Joseph). - Lot 124

SIMA (Joseph). Le Livre de mariage. Paris : [Joseph Sima], 1922. - In-12, 194 x 130: (6 ff. first two blank), 35 pp. (4 ff. last two blank), printed cover. Bound in white box spine boards, grey paper boards painted with horizontal grey-white wavy fillets, decorated with cut and pastedown paper compositions, untrimmed, cover preserved, white box spine flap folder and grey paper boards decorated with white dots, matching slipcase (Annie Boige 2009) Important edition of this collection of poetic texts by various authors, illustrated with 31 woodcuts by the painter and engraver Joseph SIMA (1891-1971). It is the second work illustrated by the artist, after Au temps de Jésus-Christ published the same year. Limited edition of 210 copies on Montval laid paper, this one being part of the 200 put in the market. A very nice copy, mounted on tabs, in an elegant binding signed by Annie Boige, realized in 2009.