About the cover:

Fully bound 11 sheets of vellum and a red cover hung on folds. Lavender-blue box leather, slightly raised bands of black box leather running diagonally upwards on both covers, imitating bark, with slightly rounded multicoloured lines embossed with palladium in between, multicoloured spine title à la chinoise. Mirror and flyleaf in blue suede, edged with a narrow wine-red leather band; natural edge and hand-stitched capital.

Half-leather chemise covered with wooden paper and lined with the same suede. Slipcase with leather-bound opening, covered with wood paper.

About the content:

Ovide: Le Déluge

Limited edition of 50 copies by the publisher Rémy Maure, Paris 1996, of which 7 copies were individually illustrated by the artist Julius Baltazar during a storm in Corsica in 1998; artist's book Ex. VII of VII.

About the artists: Jean-Paul and Colette Miguet are among the best bookbinders of the second half of the 20th century. They were active from 1951 to 1981. After studying bookbinding, decoration and fine arts at the École Estienne in Paris, Jean-Paul joined the workshop of the Bibliothèque nationale in 1944. There, he met Colette, who did binding and restoration work. In 1951, they set up their bookbinding workshop in the back of the bookshop La Renoncule in Paris. Their high-quality works range from purely classical bindings to contemporary creations.

They were convinced that the bookbinder’s cover design should never compete with the author or illustrator but should only interpret graphics and colours to perfection.