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(MINIATURE). Souchière, Émile-Bernard, Marc Syren, and Anik Vinay. Voyelles en partance. 30x27 mm; 1x1 1/4 inches. Two illustrations (frontispieces) and covers by Anik Vinay engraved on fruitwood. Text set in Palatino Corps 7. [39] pages, engraved wooden covers; encased in interlocking sculptural wooden blocks (67x40 mm; 2 3/4x1 1/2 inches each). (SA) Gigondas, France: Atelier des Grames, 1993
Number 47 of an unspecified limitation. A creative miniature book conceived by Martine Pringuet and Vinay, bound dos-a-dos, with pages folded in a progression of lengths, giving the initial appearance of fragmented text. The wood for the binding, plates, and case was sourced from trees in the famous vineyard town of Gigondas in the Upper Vaucluse region of Provence, where the book was also printed.
