About the cover:

Full-grain binding Brown and smoothed maroquin leather, richly decorated with arabesque shapes in gold, white, dark green and dark blue on the front and back cover and across the spine, title, author and artist in gold on the spine, hand-stitched capital and three-sided gilt edges, mirror and flyleaf in dark green suede. Slipcase leather-bound and covered with wood veneer paper.

About the content:

Leconte de Lisle: Anacréontiques

With 50 original lithographs by André Derain, bound with two suites (50 lithographs each and 9 unused plates), one printed in black on Japon ancien and one printed in brown on Chine, and the menu of the book vernissage of 30 January 1954.

No. 3 for Marcel Juveneton out of a total of 200 copies, 130 numbered in Arabic and 70 in Roman numerals.

Cercele Lyonnais du livre, Lyon 1953 The work contains 57 odes. The ode is a poem form with a strophic structure. Here are a few examples of the ode themes: woman, Eros, swallow, dream, rose, love, gold, painting, wümmet, etc.

About the artist: Jacques Anthoine-Legrain is the son-in-law of the legendary Pierre Legrain, who gave new impetus to the art of binding at the beginning of the 20th century. After his death in 1929, Jacques Anthoine returned to Paris and took over his father-in-law's workshop. With the appended name Legrain, his covers are often compared to those of Legrain, which he need not fear. True to the motto ‘A decoration must reflect the soul of the text as much as possible!’, he developed completely independent and magnificent designs. The careful choice of materials and finely colour-coordinated leather coverings are the hallmarks of his brilliant binding art, which he practised until around 1950. He was one of the six outstanding binding designers who founded the Société de la Reliure Originale in 1946 and in whose exhibitions he regularly took part.