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INSCRIBED BY ERNST ERNST, MAX; and PERET, BENJAMIN. La Brébis Galante. 3 color etchings, including title, 2l full-page color pochoir plates, 21 pictorial initials, and tailpiece, by Ernst. 4to, original boards; dust jacket after design by Ernst, slight wear at top and bottom of spine panel and tips; glassine over-wrapper, light edgewear. Paris: Éditions Premières, 1949
number 62 of 300 copies on grand velin d'arches inscribed by ernst to Walter & Lucy Bayne: "en souvenir d'une trop courte visite dans les rochers . . . avec la sympathie de Max Ernst." While it appreared after World War Two, it is without doubt one of the masterpieces of the Surrealist livre d'artiste. Hubert, pages 26, 34. Spies/Leppien 28; The Artist & the Book 100; Huges/Poupard 2.
