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GRASSET, EUGÈNE. Les Mois: Douze Compositions gravées sur bois & imprimées en chromotypographie. 24 chromotypographed plates, two for each month, before type with month only printed, and after type, designed for the 1896 calendar of the Parisian department store La Belle Jardinière. Sheets measure 17x241 mm; 12 1/2x9 1/2 inches, images are roughly 209x159mm; 8 1/4x6 1/4 inches (plates before letters are printed on the sheets, those with text cut and mounted to sheets. Folio, early 20th century gilt-stamped pasteboard over marbled boards, worn; original wrappers bound in; scattered marginal foxing. Paris: G. De Malherbe, 1895 [or 1896]
In the early 1890s Grasset began experimenting with a new form of printing called chromotypography, an early form of photolithography invented by his friend, Firmin Gillot. This calendar was printed in "Gillotage," a version of chromotypography where the plates are engraved on wood and printed on vellum.
