(BISSIÈRE, ROGER.) Saint Francis of Assisi. Cantique à notre Frère Soleil. Edited by Jean-François Jaeger. 11 color woodcuts by Bissière executed by Fiorini, under Bissière's direction, hand-printed on Auvergne paper by Richard de Bas. Images measure 253x172mm; 10x6 3/4 inches, wide margins. Folio, contents loose as issued in vellum with text engraved on front cover, fine condition; original board slipcase. Paris: Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1954
number 37 of only 48 copies signed by bissière (the total edition). A beautiful livre d'artiste by one of the finest painters of the postwar period. Edited by Jean-François Jaeger, the successor to Jeanne Bucher, who published equally remarkable books--Capon, The Painter and the Book, 309.
