Élégies

GUILLEVIC, Eugène. Élégies. With a lithograph by Jean Dubuffet. Paris, Le Calligraphe, 1946. In-4°, loose sheets in original ivory publisher's folder with titles printed in red and grey. Original edition, one of 296 numbered copies on B.F.K. de Rives paper (no. 264), from an overall edition of 306 copies. Enriched with a large original colour lithograph by Jean Dubuffet, a cardinal figure of Art Brut, here in one of his first editorial collaborations. Guillevic, a Breton poet among the greatest of the twentieth-century French poets, publishes these elegies in the immediate post-war period. Folder with normal wear from time; interior fresh. Rare collaboration between two protagonists of French culture of the late twentieth century.